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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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Workplace Ethics: Maintaining a Clean Workplace

HR Digest

When you join a company, there is a proper process of onboarding and an induction program where employees are familiarized with workplace expectations, duties, ethics, and culture. A part of the ethical expectations and behavior from the employee is maintaining a clean environment. Also, have clear signages discouraging littering.

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Public And Private Sectors Differ In Their Approach To AI Governance

The Horizons Tracker

A survey was conducted of 280 global organizations and 71 policymakers to understand the relative importance they placed on various ethical principles in relation to 12 different AI use cases. Among the private sector, however, no real consensus emerged, with several options equally popular. Differing priorities.

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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Dies Today at 87

Leading Blog

I am not a consensus politician. Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. On Society.

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How Do We Feel When We Know What Our Colleagues Earn?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. As public debate on the matter provided little in the way of consensus, a new paper attempted to provide quantitative evidence to bring to the discussion.

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Desk Eating: The good, the bad, and the ugly

HR Digest

The general consensus was that if people are eating at their desks to save time, then it is a fallacy. It does not determine your work ethics or your social skills at work. Some companies have a clear cut policy of strictly no eating at the desk. Food at desks policies. Desk Eating: a social evil or necessity?

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". As best I can tell, there is no such methodological consensus in sociology, political science, anthropology, or history at the moment.

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