by Marian Griffin Kloot | Apr 30, 2019 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
Over the last seven months, I’ve worked with several groups of businesspeople, at various times needing to answer the question, Why be ethical? And we’ve done that. There are good reasons: Because it’s the good and right way to be Because it’s aligned with one’s...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Nov 2, 2018 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
Last week I talked to the leaders of an organisation which is on a journey to combine compliance and ethics management under the umbrella of good corporate governance. They want to do the right thing. They’ve reached consensus on what ethics management is, and...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Sep 17, 2018 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
Do people who make ethical mistakes, intend to? Was someone like Markus Jooste of Steinhoff infamy born unethical – and if not, how did he come to be the person who rationalised his behaviour and decisions the way he did in front of a joint sitting of Parliamentary...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | May 7, 2018 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
A few years ago I organised and co-hosted a dinner in Johannesburg at which the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University spoke. In attendance were the vice-chancellors of a number of South African universities, and some of the academics published by my (then) employer....
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Apr 13, 2018 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
It’s a wise leader who keeps his or her eyes on ‘doing business right’ as well as on all the other balls in the air. The evidence of people who have lost ethical perspective is abundant. I read this week (again) about Steinhoff directors’ failure to ask the right...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Mar 3, 2018 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
I’m mentoring some young professionals just entering the workplace. In thinking about guiding them, I wanted to clarify: What values do professions, and organisations, expect of their employees? What fundamental principles are these young people expected to display?...
