Ethicability for Organisations Today and into the Future led by Roger Steare, FRSA, FIPR, Professor in Organisational Ethics, Cass. It should appeal to managers, consultants, academics, HR Directors, and entrepreneurs at all levels who are involved in decision-making, want to develop good thinking, positive dialogue and ethical behaviour in the workplace.

1. ethicability ®
The Leadership and Organisational Challenge
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3. What’s the context?
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5. “...society expects its bankers and financiers to behave
ethically and to behave with integrity;
society expects institutions to have the ‘right’ culture to
facilitate ‘good decision-making’; and
society also should know that regulatory rules, even when
combined with effective supervision, are not sufficient to
ensure the probability that future failures are minimised.”
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6. What is ethics?
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7. You go to an ATM and it gives you £200 instead of the
£100 you keyed in.
Q1.What do most people do in this situation?
Q2.Which answer do you think would score highest marks in
an integrity test and why?
a. Keep the money because it’s the bank’s fault
b. Return the money because it’s theft if I keep it
c. Return the money because it belongs to other people
d. Return the money because I believe in honesty
You have 3 mins to discuss these questions
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8. a. Ethic of Ego
- what’s right is what’s best for me, me, me...
- internal driver of behaviour
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9. b. Ethic of Obedience
- what’s right is following orders
- consequences are reward or punishment
- external driver of behaviour
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10. c. Ethic of Care
- what’s right is what’s best for all of us
- moral values of humility, love and fairness
- interactive driver of behaviour (relationships)
- builds community integrity
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11. d. Ethic of Reason
- what’s right is what I/we judge is right
- moral values of wisdom, self-control
- character and judgement
- personal integrity
- internal driver of behaviour
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17. What is ethics?
• We obey the rules*
• We care about each other
• We act with reason
* If there is consultation and consent
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18. ethicability ®
How to decide what’s right and find
the courage to do it
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19. Doing the right thing
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20. How do we decide what’s RIGHT
• We obey the Rules
• We consider the facts and make rational
decisions with personal Integrity values
• We consider our feelings for others and make
social decisions with collective integrity values, to
maximise Good and minimise Harm
• We test our decision for Truth
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21. In order to meet our budget, we need to reduce our payroll costs
by 15%. You have two options to consider:
1. Reduce headcount by 20% (includes re-structuring costs)
2. Agree a collective reduction in salaries of 14% (includes NI savings)
What would be the RIGHT thing to do and why?
You have 5 minutes to discuss and decide using this
framework:
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22. The Organisational Challenge
• Why does your business exist?
• Is it a human community of belonging?
• How do you achieve and sustain your
economic purpose?
• What’s the role of values, behaviours,
leadership and culture in meeting these
challenges?
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24. 1. I ask how he will know when he has succeeded as CEO. He has two measures, he says:
“How the stock market values this firm has to be a huge part of it,” he says. “And also the
extent to which we are seen as a moral and decent firm.
2. Gulliver has polled 280 of the top executives and learned that almost all identified
bureaucracy as HSBC’s biggest problem. “The point is to undo the bureaucracy
without losing control,” he says. He will encourage a corporate culture of what he calls
“courageous integrity”.
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25. Questions?
For further info:
www.ethicability.org
Buy the book at:
www.amazon.co.uk
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