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1. Introduction
2. About the IBE
3. A cameo dilemma - loyalty challenged
4. Lecture structure
5. What is business ethics?
6. What about law, compliance, values, responsibility
7. Where does the law fit in?
8. Are there different approaches?
9. Ethics vs. compliance approach
10. Values and integrity
11. Some business values
12. Some ethical values
13. How are values used?
14. How do companies implement this?
15. Why are ethical issues important for business?
16. Two drivers: pressure, business case
17. Pressure sources which drive ethics
18. Having a code is good governance practice, 1992
19. The combined code on corporate governance, 2003
20. Trust in integrity of business
21. Public opinion on business
22. What is the case for business ethics
23. Summarizing the business case
24. Does business ethics pay
25. Does business ethics pay - revisited
26. Frameworks for thinking
27. Classifying business ethics (integrity) concerns
28. Business ethics is about ...
29. What about CSR
30. What about compliance
31. Compliance or integrity
32. Current business ethics issues
33. Some current topics - public view
34. Some red flags
35. Ethical tests for a business decision
36. Making business ethics work
37. What is the aim?
38. How is it done?
39. Elements of an effective ethics programme
40. Note - the limitations of a code
41. Summary
42. Disclose and discuss
43. Thank you

Topics Covered

• Law, Compliance and regulation versus values and principles
• Ethical and business values of organizations
• Corporate responsibility
• Cultivating Trust within and outside an organisation
• Integrity in business dealings
• Openness and transparency in business
• Codes of business ethics
• Cultivating and maintaining a culture of integrity

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Series:

• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on January 31, 2011