Culture Assessment Practice
Recaps of Panel Discussions on Culture
Panel discussion featuring Radha Basu (SupportSoft), Ken Denman (Openwave Systems), Robert Ewald (SGI), Mark Lonergan (Lonergan Partners)
A discussion on the unique pressures on business ethics in Silicon Valley.
A panel discusses how to create a culture that will encourage employees to withstand the pressure to falsify financial records.
An overview of what companies can do to promote ethics in the workplace by Albert C. Pierce.
James O'Toole describes mindful managers as capitalists who created profitable businesses but also had strong ethical compasses, respected others, and wanted to use their organizations to foster human development.
Summary of a panel featuring Sheridan Tatsuno, Dreamscape Capital; Stanley Kwong, professor, USF; and Jacqueline Fan, Ernst & Young.
- Creating an Ethical Culture is an Everyday Task
Simon Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer of Millennium Management LLC,details the steps he takes to make the internal audit function an integral part of a company's ethical culture.
- Characteristics of an Ethical Organization
Former Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson identifies characteristics of an ethical organization.
Susan Sweet describes EY’s process developing their Americas ethics program for more than 35,000 employees in North, Central and South America, Mexico, Israel, and Canada.
Robert Finocchio, former CEO of Informix, offers prescriptions for making ethics part of strategy.
- Corporate Culture Must be Defined by the Board
Board issues that significantly influence corporate culture include independence, committee structure, the nominating process, time dedicated, compensation, and philosophy.
Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, was interviewed about Enron by Atsushi Nakayama, a reporter for the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.