Articles
Ethical Leadership
General Peter Cosgrove speaks at the Edmund Rice Business Ethics Breakfast
May and June, 2007
Why good people do bad things; managers as professionals
A talk offered to the Australian Graduate School of Management Alumni Association. Sheraton on the Park Hotel, Sydney.
September, 2006
WorkChoices and Ethical Decision Making
A talk delivered to the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations
July 2006
Ethical Business and Sustainable Communities
The role and structure of business has fundamentally changed in the past 10 years........
7 November 2002
Don Argus' Address to ERBEI Forum, 19 March 2002
Business, the Environment and Ethics: Sustainable Profit vs Sustainable Planet?
1 November 2002
Paul Barry's Address to ERBEI Forum, 27 March 2001
Rogues, Scallywags and Thieves? Business Ethics in the Lucky Country.
1 November 2002
Ralph Doubell's Address to ERBEI Forum, 26 July 2000
The Business Olympics. Is it just about winning or how you play the game?
1 November 2002
John Ralph's Address to ERBEI Forum 28 October 1999
What's legal? What's ethical? What can we get away with? How do you measure up?
1 November 2002
Michael Carmody
What' legal? What's ethical? What can we get away with? How do you measure up?
1 November 2002
Corporate Governance
A panel of well known speakers particapate in a lively debate about Corporate Governance issues.
31 October 2002
Allan Moss' Address to the ERBEI Forum, 26th July 2000
Why is it that good business people do wrong?
31 October 2002
It's OK, it's in Writing: Ethics in the Balance Sheet
The recent spate of company closures which has brought to public
attention the loss, not only for creditors, but also employees, for
outstanding payments, raises questions about how well uncashed
provisions reflect the true position of an organisation in terms of the
capacity to meet its obligations.
31 October 2002
Justice Terry Sheahan's address to ERBEI Forum, March 2002
Concepts of ethics and environment can be a little like the old adage
about pornography - I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
5 September 2002
Ann Sherry's address to ERBEI Forum, September 2001
Trust is not an optional extra in a successful society, it's a vital
ingredient. The social theorist Francis Fukuyama has forcefully argued
that liberal political and economic institutions rely upon a healthy
and dynamic civil society for their vitality.
5 September 2002
Tony Harris' address to ERBEI Forum, September 2001
One of the outstanding principles I learned from the Christian Brothers
at St Patrick's Strathfield is that gambling on a certainty was
unethical.
5 September 2002
Cheats Can Prosper and Do
Most people involved in business promote themselves as ethical, but
scratch the surface and their conduct is often less than squeaky clean.
Tony Harris reports.
5 September 2002
Advancing Business Ethics
The complexities of doing business in contemporary society and the
examples of injustice, exploitation and the search for profits in a
highly competitive world have led to a renewed focus on business
ethics. Any discussion of business ethics needs to start by clarifying
the central notions.
5 September 2002
