Managing Values

22/06/2022

Looks like Manly's on fire! But it's only the Sun playing with matches!!

11/06/2022

Fisherman at Curl Curl this morning. For you Gregory Lagan

06/06/2022

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/understanding-esg-risks-and-why-they-matter

ESG frameworks help move management from compliance to proactive management of risk?l

Sponsored: ESG analysis uncovers critical risks for businesses. It’s crucial for companies to be able to identify and mitigate these risks to ensure long-term success.

24/05/2022

Origins of risky cultures?

Normalization of deviance is a term first coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan when reviewing the Challenger disaster. Vaughan noted that the root cause of the Challenger disaster was related to the repeated choice of NASA officials to fly the space shuttle despite a dangerous design flaw with the O-...

12/05/2022

the ethical dimension of food production?

The food we eat alters the microorganisms in our gut - and scientists claim the spread of Western fast foods is depriving us of the ones we need to fight off autoimmune diseases.

05/05/2022

skilling people for a post truth world

A new set of online games holds promise for helping identify and prevent harmful misinformation from going viral.

03/05/2022

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/sustainable-investing-expert-alison-taylor-esg-misconceptions-and-why-ethics-are-part
ESG won't work without the ethical perspective?

The BSR advisor, NYU professor and executive director at Ethical Systems discusses what concerning orthodoxies she’s seeing begin to ossify, and what leadership in ESG investing should really be doing right now.

25/01/2022

In a worrying sign, Australia is heading in the opposite direction to Norway, plummeting in the latest global Corruption Perceptions Index.

11/01/2022

Great overview of the latest field research in how to build an ethical organisational culture

An annual training session isn’t going to cut it.

10/01/2022

If people are not trained in ethical decision making skills, are organisational leaders setting them up for ethical failures?

By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many employees don’t care about, nor even recognize, their own company’s code of ethics. As pointed out by Liran and Dolan (2016)1, “There is a growing discre...

08/01/2022

20-something years ago the SpeedRail project looked at the feasibility of a Sydney/Canberra VFT. For all the reasons Richard Holden argues, it was viable but mysteriously it did not proceed. Travel through China on the VFT, as we have done many times, and you'll wonder what's taking us so long.

Albanese deserves credit for being bold about the future of high-speed rail in Australia. But how would his proposal stack up economically.

01/01/2022

The company tells its annual developers’ conference, Baidu Create, that an expanding pool of talent is contributing to China’s AI development, with innovations in transportation, health care and space exploration.

12/12/2021

A new study finds that while there have been improvements in the way victim-survivors are treated at work, there is still much to be done.

12/12/2021

Systemic risk management lapses at a financial services firm, allegations of toxic culture at a video game giant, and more of the same baffling behavior from one of the world's largest tech companies comprise CW's list of the biggest ethics and compliance fails of 2021.

10/11/2021

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) involves capturing and storing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power stations, energy intensive industries, and gas fields by injecting the captured greenhouse gases back into the ground. CCS is extremely expensive and cannot deliver zero emissions.

20/10/2021

Possibility of COVID-19 testing at home poses legal questions for employers

16/10/2021

Psychological safety is be basis of trust in organisations and trust is the foundation for innovation to emerge

What is psychological safety at work? Learn how to assess and enhance pscyhological safety in your organization to drive collaboration and innovation.

06/10/2021

The Morrison government’s reluctance to reduce and prevent corruption is not limited to its rejection of a genuine federal integrity commission.

06/10/2021

IBAC is a far better model

The move for a federal ICAC follows years of criticism that state governments operated under anti-corruption bodies but no such entity existed federally.

01/10/2021

The concept of work as the best avenue for human flourishing has come under review. Hopefully, what we have finally put behind us is the “Monday to Friday sort of dying”.

https://values.com.au/reinventing-organisational-post-covid-codes-of-conduct/

The seismic shift in workplace culture caused by Covid-19 is resetting how we think about the role of work and how we collectively organise.

23/09/2021

Ethical business leaders look like this

Canva co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht’s pledge to giveaway a 30 per cent stake in Canva puts them on track to create the country’s largest charitable foundation.

31/08/2021

Leaders’ personal reputations have never been more vulnerable to workplace pressures than in today’s low trust hyper-connected world.

https://values.com.au/the-human-dimension-of-conduct-risk/

Most of us believe we will speak up when faced with unethical behaviour; however, research shows we often fail to act on our ethical intent.

29/08/2021

Good checklist when building for ethical accountability in the workplace

Boards and executive management teams, should make sure the company’s approach to building and maintaining an ethical culture incorporates these five key best practices.

24/08/2021

Every workplace action has an ethical dimension because no single action can exist in a vacuum.

https://values.com.au/how-to-act-ethically-at-work/

Acting ethically means anticipating our impacts on others and avoiding or seeking to minimise potential negative consequences.

22/08/2021

Purpose needs serious social infrastructure support

How the 5Ps of company purpose help you embed purpose in your company

21/08/2021

Agile transformational journey look like this
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19/08/2021

Fairness, inclusion and transparency are the key words here.

Do you actually need compulsory vaccination at your workplace? And if you do, as a last resort, how do you make mandates fair?

17/08/2021

the investment here is $1.9 billion, a paltry sum as the Opposition has said. But ponder this: Australia subsidises the coal industry by the same amount each year. Maybe we should consider other options.

UK to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 as part of newly unveiled initiative to tackle climate change and create jobs

17/08/2021

This is what unethical behaviour looks like.

The Australian Resources and Energy Group (AMMA) has taken a stand against workplace sexual harassment in the resources and energy sector. As part of their submission to Western Australia’s Inquiry into sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry, AMMA says that despite some proact...

12/08/2021

Allow d*ckheads to spoil your culture or begin tomorrow by asking people to call them out?

https://values.com.au/simple-rule-of-business-no-dckheads-allowed/

Is it OK, or even possible to call out incivility, especially when perpetrators are usually in positions of power?