Category: Insight Edge

Money. It’s the reason most of us turn up to work. But once the money is right (and the gender pay gap is closed) it is rarely how much we are paid that keeps us focused or encourages us to excel at the work we are paid for. This is good news for employers because pay […]

We ask AIM Members a few tricky questions about themselves and their businesses. Charlie Elliot, new AIMbassador CHARLIE ELLIOTT, STUDENT AIMBASSADOR, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Charlie is the second Student AIMbassador who will spread the insights, knowledge and value that Membership of AIM, Australia’s top leadership organisation, can offer at any stage of your career.   WHAT IS […]

BY KIRSTEN LEES While we were researching ethics for this month’s Insight Edge we found these talks, papers and opinion pieces that are too good not to share. ON ETHICAL LEADERSHIP Five traits of an ethical leader. What are the qualities of an ethical leader and how might someone with those qualities think and act? (The Conversation) […]

Compliance requirements are designed (at least in theory) to enforce the right behaviour, when it comes to your finances, your employees, your customers and the community your business operates in. But when it comes to small and medium sized businesses, “A lot of them just get on with the job and hope they don’t get […]

You don’t have to be the former CEO of Volkswagen to know how devastating being caught doing the wrong thing can be for your business. Doing the right thing, being ethical, isn’t just about not getting caught and having to pay the price. Research in Australia and internationally suggests that ethical businesses are more attractive to […]

The 8-step ethical workout Who are you hiring? When you bring someone new into your organisation, you don’t want to be starting ethical lessons from scratch. Interview for integrity. Challenge candidates with ethical scenarios during interviews. Consider exploring the tools and techniques on the market that help measure and predict ethical behaviour in individuals and […]

It’s all very well to talk about ethics in the abstract. It’s relatively easy to theorise about what should or shouldn’t happen at any point. But business decisions happen in context. They are a product of the collision of the cultural norms that surround them, the rewards or sanctions that different choices incur, the moral […]

A study co-authored by Dr David Cramer, management professor at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, asked 800 participants from the US and China to negotiate a sale under pressure and avoid company loss. Negotiators from the US were found to be more likely to use ‘questionable’ business ethics in their negotiating tactics with […]

Andrew Hill, writing in the Financial Times. New developments in technology mean we can observe brain activity and identify brain patterns real time and in response to different stimuli. Neuroscientists have experimented with what happens in the brain when a person is faced with an ethical or moral dilemma. If we can observe and measure ethical […]