http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/ The strategic role of the senior executive Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-3285 Fair Chase Is Ethical : North Dakota Hunting Today Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:46:58 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/#comment-3285 [...] The Managing Leadership website has an article about legislating ethics. Granted this particular article isn't dealing directly with hunting ethics and fair chase but the short of it is ethics is ethics no matter in what forum it is subjected. Here's what is said about legislating ethics. You can legislate punishment for ethical violations, and you can make it stick. In this way, you can reasonably hope to constrain instances of unethical behavior. But you cannot create ethical behavior the same way. People won't become, or even behave, ethically because the law requires it. Ethics comes from morals, and morals are transmitted by culture, not Congress [...] [...] The Managing Leadership website has an article about legislating ethics. Granted this particular article isn’t dealing directly with hunting ethics and fair chase but the short of it is ethics is ethics no matter in what forum it is subjected. Here’s what is said about legislating ethics. You can legislate punishment for ethical violations, and you can make it stick. In this way, you can reasonably hope to constrain instances of unethical behavior. But you cannot create ethical behavior the same way. People won’t become, or even behave, ethically because the law requires it. Ethics comes from morals, and morals are transmitted by culture, not Congress [...]

]]> http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-3284 Fair Chase Is Ethical - Black Bear Blog - Black Bear Blog is for hunters, fishermen, and outdoor enthusiasts. Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:46:27 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/#comment-3284 [...] The Managing Leadership website has an article about legislating ethics. Granted this particular article isn't dealing directly with hunting ethics and fair chase but the short of it is ethics is ethics no matter in what forum it is subjected. Here's what is said about legislating ethics. You can legislate punishment for ethical violations, and you can make it stick. In this way, you can reasonably hope to constrain instances of unethical behavior. But you cannot create ethical behavior the same way. People won't become, or even behave, ethically because the law requires it. Ethics comes from morals, and morals are transmitted by culture, not Congress [...] [...] The Managing Leadership website has an article about legislating ethics. Granted this particular article isn’t dealing directly with hunting ethics and fair chase but the short of it is ethics is ethics no matter in what forum it is subjected. Here’s what is said about legislating ethics. You can legislate punishment for ethical violations, and you can make it stick. In this way, you can reasonably hope to constrain instances of unethical behavior. But you cannot create ethical behavior the same way. People won’t become, or even behave, ethically because the law requires it. Ethics comes from morals, and morals are transmitted by culture, not Congress [...]

]]> http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-944 The difficulty in applying formal ethics programs in the corporate world | Managing Leadership Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:05:56 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2006/10/30/legislating-ethics/#comment-944 [...] We can neither legislate nor institutionalize ethics that don’t exist naturally within us. Efforts to pretend we can only trivialize our comprehension and expression of ethical behavior or moral thought. But that doesn’t mean, of course, that we can’t keep trying to figure this one out. [...] [...] We can neither legislate nor institutionalize ethics that don’t exist naturally within us. Efforts to pretend we can only trivialize our comprehension and expression of ethical behavior or moral thought. But that doesn’t mean, of course, that we can’t keep trying to figure this one out. [...]

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