Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure

From the US Department of Defense Standards of Conduct Office:
The Standards of Conduct Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel’s Office has assembled the following selection of cases of ethical failure for use as a training tool. Our goal is to provide DoD personnel with real examples of Federal employees who have intentionally or unwittingly violated the standards of conduct. Some cases are humorous, some sad, and all are real. Some will anger you as a Federal employee and some will anger you as an American taxpayer. Read more

Alison Taylor and James Cohen for The FCPA Blog:
In the future, compliance officers will need to anticipate and respond to a transformation in business ethics. Here are six trends to watch out for: 1. Hyper-transparency: By 2020, there will be 80 billion devices connected to the internet. As internet access has grown, the media industry has fragmented, public debate has become less top-down and more diffuse, and companies have had to accept that the ability to control reputation has been greatly reduced.  Read more

Valerie Bolden-Barrett for HR Dive:
Bad business behavior made front-page news, from Enron’s financial cover-up, Arthur Andersen’s book-cooking and Hewlett Packard’s spy operations to Wells Fargo’s fake customer accounts, Mylan Pharmaceutical’s price-gouging and Fox News’ sex scandal. The commonality among these corporate giants was a lapse in business ethics. Read more

Barry & Matt Salzberg for Inc.:
A short video from Inc’s leadership forum discussing how to be an authentic and ethical leader. The discussion highlights the need of leaders to listen to their team members to be truly effective.  View

Liz Ryan for Forbes:
We have to talk more openly than we have done in the past about fear and trust at work. Fear and trust are the chemical currents that power every good or bad thing an organization does, but we seldom talk about them and it hurts us not to. We pretend there are no currents. We focus on particles instead of waves. Read more