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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.

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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

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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.

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.

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

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:

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. 

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 (But Not Everyone Agrees), According to Biennial ERC National Workplace Survey

Reuters (press release) - Arlington, VA

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."

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