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Opinion: Choosing Business Leaders with Integrity(6)
A business executive who happens to also be a former Catholic monk has his own unique litmus test for gauging executive credibility and trust. “How can I tell if an executive is trustworthy?” he asks. “What are the signs to look for in promoting leaders in this new era of doubt and suspicion?”
Full Story»Investors Introduce Record Number of Climate Change Resolutions
The resolutions, up 40% from last year, have been presented to some of the nation’s largest coal companies, electric power and oil producers, home builders, big box retailers, financial institutions and other businesses thought to be not adequately disclosing and managing potential climate-related business impacts.
Business Ethics in China: What Would Chairman Mao Think?
The Communist Party’s Central Committee has issued a code of ethics specifying 52 unacceptable practices and warned that violators would be “severely” disciplined and subject to criminal charges. The 52 practices include accepting cash or financial instruments as gifts, and using influence to benefit spouses, children or others in employment, stock trading or business.
Apple Increases Its Monitoring of Suppliers
The company says it conducted on-site audits at 102 facilities in 2009, up from 83 in 2008, and trained 133,000 workers, supervisors and managers, a sharp increase from 27,000 a year earlier.
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