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HGPII Announces Major New Initiatives To Further Increase Transparency And Oversight In The Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry

pbongino — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:35:19 -0500

ERC President, Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D. participated in developing these HGPII initiatives.

At Annual Best Practices Forum, GPO Leaders Urge Congress and Others to Enhance Transparency in the Healthcare Supply Chain

Ethics Key For Long Run

pbongino — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:53:45 -0500

From Investor.com by Steve Watkins

Focus on doing things ethically to achieve long-term success. Companies that fail to do that show up on the news for the wrong reasons, such as fraud or facing lawsuits. To avoid that and do the right thing:

Emphasize their significance. Cheating and misleading people might work in the short term. But over the long run they'll come back to bite you. Ethical actions help reap lasting gains.

Read the complete article.

Want more insights from the ERC’s National Business Ethics Survey?

pbongino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:42:43 -0500

Download the first in a series of Supplemental Research Briefs drawn from the 2009 NBES:

Saving the Company Comes at a Cost:
The Relationship Between Belt-Tightening Tactics and Increased Employee Misconduct

Download a free copy today.

The Late Carol Marshall, an Admired Leader in Business Ethics, Is Named Recipient of ERC's 2009 Pace Award

pbongino — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:03:01 -0500

Arlington, Va. -- Carol Marshall, a former Ethics Resource Center board member and business ethics leader at Lockheed Martin and MCI has been named posthumously as the recipient of the 2009 Pace Award, ERC President Patricia J. Harned announced.

Mrs. Marshall, an attorney and dedicated promoter of ethics in business for almost a quarter-century, died on Sept. 21 of pancreatic cancer at Washington Center Hospice in Washington, D.C. She was 56.

Ring in Year With Good Business Ethics

kyleg — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:01:39 -0500

From TheStreet.com

by Lauren Bloom

The new year presents a fresh opportunity for companies to make a clean start when it comes to business ethics. According to a recent survey from the Ethics Resource Center, now is a great time to do it.

SHRM Research Quaterly Features NBES Study

pbongino — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:10:22 -0500

Research from ERC's 2009 National Business Ethics Survey is featured in the Research Quarterly of the Society of Human Research Management. Go to http://bit.ly/8ZAT42

View a recording from ERC's 2009 National Business Ethics Survey Webcast

pbongino — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:45:44 -0500

The 2009 National Business Ethics Survey shows that measures of ethics in the American workplace actually improved during the past two years, despite – or perhaps because of – the recession. ERC's research detected a similar improvement during the Enron – WorldCom scandals earlier this decade.

Why the improvement – and will it last?

Introduction by Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D., ERC President

Panelists:

Ethics in the Workplace Improved During the Recession, National Employee Survey Shows

pbongino — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:50:01 -0500

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.

Study Says Workplace Ethics Up During Recession

pbongino — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:04:39 -0500

New 6-year survey out from The Ethics Resource Center, which says people are behaving more ethically at work while the economy is slow.

NBES on public radio’s “The Takeaway"

Sex With Your Boss? Affairs with Co-workers? Why That's Unethical ...

pbongino — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:08:33 -0400

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