business ethics in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment I suspect that the agencies (and hence the employers they are seeking to service) are missing out on the capable but honest people (like myself, blush) with ethics standards that bar us from applying for these jobs that we apparently are not... [06 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up Perkins wrote in a letter to the board of directors: "I resigned solely to protest the questionable ethics and the dubious legality of the chairman's methods. Also in the firing line now is an HP employee named Kevin Hunsaker, whose irony-rich job... [22 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.01.06
Round-Up Money and the very compelling opportunities presented by a billion-plus person market in China very quickly help to overcome any troublesome issues such as ethics or morality, we're sure. And let's not forget most major multinationals have made... [27 Jan 2006]
Leader: Google astride the Great Firewall of China
Leader The second is to suggest that because this is Google, which extols the virtues of its 'Do No Evil' motto, it has sold out entirely and abandoned not only its sense of ethics but also its business model - given that agreeing to omit searches is a... [25 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Business ethics
Comment Business has shown every sign of adopting the ethics of the 'professional foul', knowingly breaking rules if commercial advantage can be gained. Is the phrase 'business ethics' an oxymoron? As more and more regulations are put in place to crack... [03 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Twists and turns of open source
Comment The other contrast is the emphasis on ethics. One might be sceptical about the chances of too much emphasis on ethics surviving for long. The occasional 'de-merger' is usually just the selling off of an unwanted business group to some other large... [25 Oct 2005]
Leader: Corporate ethics - don't pass the buck to IT
Leader IT heads said in this week's CIO Jury they are coming under increasing pressure from HR and other parts of the business to be the "corporate police force" when it comes to enforcing internal ethics and codes of conduct policies for staff. [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Honour at the top
Leader We're still looking into this and wondering whether someone down in IT had an axe to grind or was genuinely in tune with the aerospace giant's ethics policy, which was strict but very much backed by Stonecipher. [08 Mar 2005]
Why do we love to hate Microsoft?
Comment They were without morals, they were without ethics and on top of everything else, they made lousy software. I find it simultaneously strange, amazing and utterly incomprehensible that your news publications continue to write business articles about... [16 Aug 2004]
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 shaming customers late returning their hire cars... [07 Jan 2003]
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 - or else he, for one, will be having words. [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 reengineering, then stand back and watch. [12 Jul 2002]
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, BT's research and technology... [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 now computer viruses are such big business. [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 comprehensive employee training schemes. [10 Jul 2001]
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