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Ethics Codes - starting out
Ethics codes can be very useful for setting out our values concisely and helping others to understand and use them. However, they are starting point and not an end in themselves. The Ethical Space focuses on how such codes form one element of a co-ordinated ethical framework. The article here by David Jackman of The Ethical Space, is from Training and Competence News and explores some of the key issues.
Goldman Sachs
The allegations about Goldman Sachs, now involving the SEC and FSA, bring into focus the requirement for financial services firms and key individuals to be 'fit and proper'. While a good deal of effort is expended on evaluating 'fitness', is enough attention given to being 'proper'? What does proper mean and how can it be effectively assessed? This is a key challenged addressed by The Ethical Space.
Election
Fairness - the Labour party, the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats all focus on fairness in their manifestos - indeed in their slogans - and Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have raised values and fairness in the TV debates. But how does fairness work in practice and how do they see broader engagement happening... ?
These are the very challenges set out in our work with corporations and a version for individuals is to be seen in The Twenty First Century Charter - see links
Hope Forum for Professional Ethics
David Jackman, of The Ethical Space, has been appointed to the management group of the Hope Forum for Professional Ethics, a joint working group of The Liverpool Hope University and Glasgow University.
RDR - FSA's Retail Distribution Review
The Ethical Space's Corporate Ethics Programme is ideal for preparing for the RDR and its full implementation as set out by FSA in CP 09/31 and the recent 10/6
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