April
  2006


ABOUT US

The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative, launched in 1991, exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on values and ethics: promoting life humanly in our businesses, our communities, our planet. It aims to create a space where these issues can be discussed and researched in mutually supportive ways. It seems to promote better communication for the sake of better outcomes for us all.

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Sustainable energy
Environmental sustainability is a central challenge facing the world as the evidence supporting global warming theories mounts. It is a growing focus for businesses thinking about their own long-term sustainability.

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When the truth is a strategy
Truth telling is a basic element of any ethics. One central ethical principle is that telling others the truth is fundamental to respecting their dignity as persons who make decisions. The dignity of the human person resides centrally in their right and duty to decide over their own lives. To do this, they require good information.

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The AWB scandal might suggest that Australian companies operating in the developing world need closer scrutiny. The principle of deniability is not a good substitute for good governance and ethical decision making processes.

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A good reputation is a valuable resource
Companies that fail to adequately recognise their reputation as one of their most valuable corporate assets do so at their peril. As we have seen over the past few years with what seems to be a continuous stream of corporate collapses and scandals, a company can take years to recover from an event which stakeholders regard as the result of unethical behaviour.
Sandy Bracy

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  Michael Walsh, editor "Ethical Investor" magazine
» Ethics - the practical realities
··Sustainable energy
··When the truth is a strategy
··More information, please...
··A good reputation is a valuable resource
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