2009
  No.7
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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A crack in Westpac's window

Westpac's recent rate rise has left it very exposed to wide-spread criticism. A crack in the bank's highly polished reputation as one of Australia's most ethically responsible corporations? Perhaps social responsibility has never been more than a fad for many organisations, is Westpac one of them?

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Business: taking advantage of difference

Women make up a large proportion of the workforce but they are still not making it to the top in the same proportion. Invoking "market forces" can just hide the fact of lack of serious approaches to ethics.

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Woolworths, Fresh Food, Beer, Pokies and Families

Woolies' shareholders have been asking some questions about the consistency of its commitment to children, families and the community, that the company seems reticent to answer.

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Healthy Organisations

What makes an organisation a good place to work in is probably not so very different from what makes a country a good place to live in. Prosperity is important for a start: just as it is better to live in a prosperous country is better than a poor one, it is probably better to work in an organisation that is profitable, pays decent wages and provides decent conditions.
John Sweeney

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  Professor Lucy Taksa
··A crack in Westpac's window
··Business: taking advantage of difference
··Woolworths, Fresh Food, Beer, Pokies and Families
··Healthy Organisations
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