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Helping you improve workplace ethics
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In this issue
Dealing with unintended ethical failure (think Clicks) | Responding to rampant corruption: get your own house in order | The growth of corruption opportunities: state capture, the Covid crisis and, the big one, the IMF loan | The ethics of the side hustle and making ends meet |
Of course we need improved ethics: But are organisations getting the basics right to realise this? | Company news | Recommended reading | Ethics activation
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Dealing with unintended ethical failure (think Clicks)
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If the ethical outrage following this incident is a reflection of the recognised importance of ethics, there needs to be a clear, proactive answer to the question, ‘what can we do?’. A standard retort to such ethical failures, ‘what were they thinking?’, provides an important answer.
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Responding to rampant corruption: get your own house in order
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We are all outraged by ongoing reports of public sector corruption. The political will to act against perpetrators, irrespective of rank, seniority, political connections or political influence, effective accountability processes and actual consequences are imperative and would make a difference. That these actions are not generally within the private sector’s control does not mean that nothing can be done. A critical first response is to move beyond public sector criticism to get the ethics in your own house in order.
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The growth of corruption opportunities: state capture, the Covid crisis and, the big one, the IMF loan
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Corruption undermines the fabric of society. It impacts the poorest and most vulnerable in society disproportionately, it erodes trust in the country’s leadership and its political and economic systems, and it depletes the funds that should ensure public sector service delivery. And yet the risk of corruption by those with power and no ethics remains, with the IMF loan being the next big opportunity.
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The ethics of the side hustle and making ends meet
Published in ACFE SA Veritas Magazine: Issue 2, June 2020
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Covid lockdown measures have left many people facing financial hardship, even employees who need to support family or friends in need. An obvious solution is to take on extra work to supplement their income. But employees face the obstacle that most organisations have a policy against external work – while employers face the prospect of non-compliance with this policy.
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Of course we need improved ethics: But are organisations getting the basics right to realise this?
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Given the obvious need for improved ethics – specifically for organisations to create an ethical workplace culture – it would be ideal to assume that organisations are getting the basics right as regards ethics. But for many organisations, their ethical initiatives are inhibited by a focus that is both limited and inaccurate.
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COMPANY NEWS: Outsourced Ethics Partner
We offer an outsourced ethics service as an ethics partner to boost your organisation’s ethics capacity, to provide in-depth ethics expertise, and to strengthen ethical thinking within your organisation. This service is customised for each organisation to include, for example, an annual ethics assessment and supporting ethics action plan, topical ethics engagements, industry relevant training, and board and leadership briefings and consultation.
Enquire about this service
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RECOMMENDED READING: Ethics is more than legal compliance
Alison Taylor writes in her September 2020 Wall Street Journal article, How Companies Can Create an Ethics Program for a New Era: “For many years, business ethics and legal compliance were held to be one and the same. As long as a business didn’t break a law, its only real ethical imperative was doing the best for its shareholders. … That is no longer the world we live in. Now, a company’s ethics are judged according to its perceived performance on a vast range of issues …”
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ETHICS ACTIVATION: International Anti-Corruption Day campaign
In recognition of International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2020, we have designed a new ethics campaign to further our drive to get people to speak up about ethics and to harness the value of activity-based learning and awareness. This ethics campaign encourages thinking about anti-corruption – without finger pointing and shaming. It asks people to share their ideas about changes that can be made, changes that they can make, and changes that should be made in our organisations and society.
The campaign involves employees completing their own poster placards, which will be curated with the company office as the backdrop. Or the campaign can be run as an activation, allowing employees to write their messages onto branded shirts, which will be printed and delivered to the organisation to be worn or exhibited in the week of International Anti-Corruption Day. As with all activations, these can be done virtually, in office or as a combination.
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About Ethics Monitoring & Management Services (Pty) Ltd
Ethics Monitoring & Management Services
was started by Cynthia Schoeman to help organisations to improve ethics in the workplace and to encourage them
to manage ethics proactively. Cynthia developed The Ethics Monitor, a web-based ethics survey, which enables
organisations to measure, monitor and report on their ethical status. Ethics Monitoring & Management Services
also offers ethics talks, workshop, consulting and training.
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Contact us
Cynthia Schoeman
Managing Director
Ethics Monitoring & Management
Services
(Pty) Ltd
011 447 7661
082 821 3729
cynthia@ethicsmonitor.co.za
www.ethicsmonitor.co.za
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