May
  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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Investment muscle on environmental sustainability
The Carbon Disclosure Project represents 211 international investors with $31 trillion under management and it wants Australia's top 100 to declare how they intend to deal with climate change by the end of June. The alternative is to face lower valuations.

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IR reforms begin to grip
Industrial relations changes carry embedded in them the idea that we are all equally capable of participating in the labour market. However, the young and the old have particular disadvantages in the employment stakes.

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Australia overseas
Doing business in other countries, especially those with very different cultures and with much smaller economies requires special attention to ethical detail. Ethically, this is even more the case where those countries have suffered significantly from war, long-term political upheaval, disease (such as AIDS ridden countries in Africa) and natural disasters.

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Ethics is cultural: rogue traders, rogue soldiers

The National Australia Bank rogue trading affair in 2003 offers yet more object lessons about ethics at work both for individuals but also for organisations. More regulation and auditing of risk management procedures are coming but they are not (all of) the right answer.
John Sweeney

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  Dr. Clive Hamilton
» Ethics -- the practical realities
··Investment muscle on environmental sustainability
··IR reforms begin to grip
··Australia overseas
··Ethics is cultural: rogue traders, rogue soldiers
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