Hana Callaghan is the director of the Government Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the author of Campaign Ethics, A Field Guide. The opinions expressed herein are her own.

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Ethical behavior, simply put, is doing the right thing. Unethical behavior is the reverse. In the workplace, unethical behavior certainly includes any deeds that violate the law, such as theft or ...

What traits do ethical leaders share? Ask most people that question and they’ll start listing terms like “integrity,” “honesty,” “fairness,” “trustworthiness,” “compassion,” and so on. Not long after ...

Ethical leadership is needed more than ever in today's corporate and political global landscape. The media reports numerous examples daily of inappropriate ethical behaviour by corporations and ...

As quality guru W. Edwards Deming reportedly said, “You can expect what you inspect.” Or put slightly differently, in business, you get what you inspect, not what you expect. When Jan Carlson, the ...

Financial services firms seeking to evaluate and improve their risk management programs often find that defining, encouraging and monitoring ethical behavior is one of the most difficult undertakings ...

Senior management and direct supervisors play a large part in influencing ethical behavior in the workplace, according to the results of a recent study from Deloitte & Touche USA. “In order to ...

Traditional compliance monitors corporate data to flag potential unethical behavior by employees, whether illegal actions or simply those that violate corporate policies. The programs then seek to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Aristotle famously stated that educating the mind without ...

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When managers are unethical, employees will emulate the bad behavior. Eventually, the unethical environment will hinder business. For example, if managers take credit for subordinates' work, some ...