Monday, April 17, 2006
Ethics as a core competency.
Plenty of attention now being placed on Morgan Stanley with a wrongful termination suit affadavit lifting the lid on steamy email chats and the firm's chief technology officer Guy Chiarello putting pressure on tech vendors to get the best seats to mega-sports events and trying to get a one-day assignment as a Yankees bat boy.
The Information Week blog makes the excellent point that all this goes to how much grey there is in ethics, especially when you have gifts (read: bribes) masquerading as innocent entertainment. Ethicists say that when long-standing relationships are involved, the costs need to be borne by the individual not the company. In other words, you ban gifts.
See full Article.