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DON’T MISS THIS ONE
Meet one
of the foremost U.S.
authorities on today’s business ethics
AND A
fabulous speaker:
Witty &
Insightful.
“Two
of the most glaring examples of academic
oxymorons are the terms “business ethics"
and "moral leadership."
-- Al Gini
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The Institute of Management Consultants Present
Meaning, Money, and Morality
Dealing with Continuing Corruption in a Post-Enron
Business Climate
Dr. Al Gini, Loyola University
Chicago
What happened at Enron, Worldcom, Andersen, Adelphia, Boeing, and in the
mutual fund industry? How were these major corporations transformed from
paragons of virtue to pariahs?
What went wrong? Was it a failure of corporate structure? Personal
character? Leadership? Ethics? Yes! Yes! Yes! And Yes!
But at its core, this
collective scandal is really about the breakdown of a very basic virtue in
business and in life – trust. Trust is the social glue that allows us to
operate in the business community with others. Trust is confidence in the
predictability, reliability, dependability, and integrity of others.
Without trust, societies and business falter and
collapse. Dr. Gini
examines the importance of trust in our lives, the importance of
re-establishing ethical standards in business, and the role that
leadership plays in both creating and modeling rules and standards of
appropriate ethical conduct.
Al
Gini is a member of the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of
Human Resources and Industrial Relations at Loyola University Chicago. He
is co-founder and associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly,
the Journal of the Society for Business Ethics and senior consultant for
the Ethical Leadership Group.
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