business ethics
RSS business ethicsCorporate governance a top priority, say execs
News The majority of corporate leaders surveyed - 80 per cent - see professional ethics and corporate responsibility as the key components of governance. The issue is changing how businesses do businesses, with 60 per cent of... [09 Jul 2004]
PeopleSoft acquisition under threat from legal action group
News The NLPC, founded in 1991, says it promotes ethics and accountability in government and business. According to Kenneth Boehm, chairman of the NLPC, the proposed merger of Oracle and PeopleSoft, the... [23 Jul 2003]
Sir Peter Bonfield - no regrets
News Asked about possibly unfair treatment in the media, with recent telecoms scandals and perhaps WorldCom's battle with BT to buy MCI in mind, he told silicon.com: "I joined [BT] when integrity and ethics were at the top of... [12 Jun 2003]
Is it right to name and shame on the web?
Comment Everybody's favourite entrepreneur, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has become embroiled in an angry discourse with the BBC, which recently questioned his ethics after his easyCar business started naming and... [07 Jan 2003]
eBay CEO defends IPO share 'scandal'
News Given my experience yesterday, I plan to participate in the growing national debate about corporate governance and business ethics," Whitman said. But critics have charged that such allocations were part... [24 Oct 2002]
Change Management: Change is good. But not always
Comment That's an ethics thing but my next point is at the opposite end of the spectrum. Business transformation - you bet they promised it. In this column, he says new ownership must make the service better -... [14 Aug 2002]
The Director's Special Cut: The Naked Leader - Part 5
Comment Involve everyone in deciding a code of ethics and values for the future. Introduce a management initiative, call it total quality anything, or continuous improvement, or worse still, business process... [12 Jul 2002]
'Security?' We've heard of it
News Business ethics were given equally little credence, with 54 per cent of workers happily admitting that they would take confidential contacts and commercially sensitive information with them when they... [11 Apr 2002]
UK's top tech companies fail ethics test
News A number of the UK's leading high-tech businesses have failed to meet the requirements of the FTSE's business ethics test for the second time around. Companies must have a code of... [18 Sep 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Summer's over - let the conferences begin
Comment Get along to a debate on ethics in ebusiness featuring Dr Jim Norton of the Institute of Directors at Ebusiness 2001 at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Also hoping to make a splash is BTexact Technologies,... [14 Sep 2001]
Another day, another US patent
Comment Law experts are predicting complicated legal wrangles that will no doubt focus on the ethics of monopolising a business model as common place as the ASP. That's certainly not a bad move for the company... [07 Aug 2001]
IT vendors - look after your staff
Comment To make the list, a business only has to have two of the following: a code of business ethics, an equal opportunities policy, flexible working policies, health and safety policies, and... [10 Jul 2001]
Named and shamed: the IT companies which fail the business ethics test
News Dozens of the UK's leading IT companies have been slammed for their poor business ethics. To make the list, companies must meet at least two of FTSE's criteria, which include having a code of... [10 Jul 2001]
Thus opens a can of worms
Comment This week - less than one year later - a Thus spokesman told us: "Business needs ethics and it is time someone took a stand. Thus, the owner of Demon Internet, broke ranks with its ISP brethren on... [23 Feb 2001]
Thus says: 'We'll block child porn'
News Keith Monserrat, director of legal and regulation at Thus, said: "Business needs ethics and it is time someone took a stand. As a member of the business community and a parent we should... [20 Feb 2001]
