News
- November 18, 2009
Like the Enron Era, Ethical Conduct Improves Temporarily During Periods of Economic Stress
Arlington, VA – Do Americans in the workplace behave better in a down economy? Apparently yes, according to the Ethics Resource Center, which today announced the results of its sixth National Business Ethics Survey® (NBES).
Ethics in the Recession, is available at www.ethics.org/nbes. - November 17, 2009
New 6-year survey out from The Ethics Resource Center, which says people are behaving more ethically at work while the economy is slow.
- October 13, 2009
Sex With Your Boss? Affairs with Co-workers? Why That's Unethical (But Not Everyone Agrees), According to Biennial ERC National Workplace Survey
Reuters (press release) - Arlington, VA
- October 8, 2009
Mark Trumbull for the Christian Science Monitor
"The largest concern for many companies is making sure that they have productive workplaces," says Patricia Harned, president of the Ethics Resource Center. For workers, "what's at stake is their feeling that they [are] rewarded for a job well done and not for any other reasons."
- September 14, 2009
The air of financial crisis that gripped Washington earlier this summer seems to be waning as health care reform and the gradually improving economy shift the focus of immediate concern.
Still, this fall promises to be plenty busy for financial regulators and lawmakers. While thousands of Americans who lost their homes, their jobs or their retirement plans continue to fume, official Washington now turns its scrutiny to what went wrong and how to fix it.
- September 2, 2009
Directors & Boards: Article of the Week
Clearly the watchwords for the rest of this year in government and business will be accountability and transparency. Here are some steps for directors to give the words meaning. By Patricia J. Harned, ERC President.
- August 18, 2009
ARLINGTON, Va. - Michael G. Oxley, a former member of Congress best known as co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the nonprofit Ethics Resource Center, ERC President Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D. announced today.
- July 31, 2009
The Ethics Resource Center has an exciting new look and new features at its online home, ethics.org.
The site has undergone a months-long redesign that makes it brighter, simpler, more user-friendly and offers new features like Twitter and podcasts. It retains its popular storehouse of articles, white papers and guides such as the frequently downloaded Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and The Ethics Toolkit.
- July 28, 2009
We’re very excited about our recently completed web site remodeling project. We hope you find the site attractive and user-friendly and the content useful and informative.
- July 21, 2009
Three senior Administration officials briefed the ERC Fellows July 15-17 on ethics and compliance in the federal government's handling of the economy, the stimulus, oversight of emergency spending and the President's agenda for financial reform.
