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Does Ideological Diversity Makes Teams More Effective?
As I was watching The Expanse, a science fiction TV series, I realized that the show demonstrates, perhaps without meaning to, the value of ideological diversity within a team. The story follows the...
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Evolutionary Thinking Can Help Companies Foster More Ethical Culture
Charles Darwin ended The Origin of Species, his argument for evolution by natural selection, on a note of celebrated eloquence. “There is grandeur to this view of life,” he wrote, “with its several...
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The Business Roundtable Wants Fair Employee Payment—But What About Agency?
Well into his 30s, my father ran a pool-plumbing business that just got us by: Sometimes clients wouldn’t pay, and when they did, it wouldn’t be uncommon for checks to bounce. His workers would demand...
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The Case for Scoring Leadership Maturity
The corporate narrative, from its advertising to its annual report, is like a good story. It sells the idea of a noble enterprise. In extreme cases, a company’s mission can become something like...
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A Theranos Whistleblower’s Mission to Make Tech Ethical
Several times in conversation people have asked me whether I mean Thanos, the Marvel villain, when I bring up Theranos. “No,” I say, “I mean Theranos, the tech company once valued at $9 billion before...
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Salon Recap: Want an Effective Business? Foster an Ethical Culture
On a trip to Ottawa, a few years ago, I got to tour the offices of the e-commerce company Shopify, courtesy of a friend of mine I was visiting who works there. Shopify makes and updates a platform over...
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Understanding Behavioral Ethics Can Strengthen Your Compliance Program
Behavioral ethics is a well known field of social science which shows—due to various cognitive biases—“how we are not as ethical as we think.” Practitioners of behavioral compliance and ethics...
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What She Learned Leading Microsoft’s Culture Change
One of the most successful culture transformations, at a company with over 140,000 employees, is unfolding before our eyes. Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has written about this...
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The Real Difference Between Autocratic and Empowering Leaders
When President Trump made an impromptu appearance at the United Nations at the same time Greta Thunberg was visiting the assembly of international dignitaries, it was almost as if they were meant to...
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Can Business Schools Have Ethical Cultures, Too?
Early in Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right, I had to wonder whether an anecdote the authors share was apocryphal. It comes in a section of the book’s seventh edition...
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Do Traditional Compliance Efforts Weaken Workers’ Moral Motivation?
How can organizations actualize their employees’ ethical potential? It’s a question Carsten Tams has been tossing around recently. In his time helping companies with organizational design and cultural...
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The Problem with Hiring Algorithms
In 2004, when a “webcam” was relatively unheard-of tech, Mark Newman knew that it would be the future of hiring. One of the first things the 20-year old did, after getting his degree in international...
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End of Year Letter, 2019, from Jon Haidt
Last year brought big changes, for the business community and for Ethical Systems. First, the business community: For those of us who care about ethics and corporate culture, 2019 was a landmark year....
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Here Is What Replaces Shareholder Primacy
One day, about a decade ago, an evolutionary biologist from Binghamton, New York, made a decision: He’d use his knowledge of humanity’s social nature to try to understand and improve its social life,...
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The Psychology of Ford’s Fiesta and Focus Cover-Up
It started with a trail of car owners bringing their Fords to repair shops. Eventually, it escalated to an out-of-control hemorrhaging of warranty costs and legal bills. Now Ford faces a federal...
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Anti-Corruption and Human Rights Efforts Will Converge in 2020
In considering external operating risk, it has long been clear that corruption and negative human rights impacts correlate keenly. Underpaid doctors who require bribes before they will admit your child...
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Leaked Boeing Emails Show Slippery Slope of a Bad Compliance Culture
Today’s hyper-transparent environment has given the public stunning opportunities to review internal communications from executives at leading companies and to pass real-time judgments on the strengths...
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Meet Alison Taylor, Ethical Systems’ New Executive Director
Over the years I’ve found it common, interviewing people, to hear that their line of work wasn’t what they envisioned for themselves. A game theorist I spoke to not too long ago, for example, had...
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Is There a Problem with Meaningful Work?
The eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell, who died exactly 50 years ago at the impressive age of 97, once penned a polemic lauding laziness. Beginning on a humorous note—he wrote of having hopes that,...
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Five Takeaways from the Luanda Leaks
In 2013, National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked a large volume of highly classified information to investigative journalists, inspiring a new generation of whistleblowers. Since...
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