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Ethics & Sustainability

About the Ethics and Sustainability Discipline

The Ethics and Sustainability Discipline deals with organizational and personal values and their expression in business decision making and behavior. It emphasizes organizational codes of ethics, but also includes relevant legal requirements. This discipline also involves managing the societal impact of business decisions, philanthropy and the role of the human resource professional in improving the quality of life of employees, their families and the community at large. It includes matters that focus specifically on careers, communications, legal and regulatory issues, technology, metrics and outsourcing in the areas of ethics and sustainability, as well as effective practices and global issues.

Values In Action At The Workplace
Although values in action bring immeasurable benefits, there is a caveat – it can only happen if there is a universal understanding and buy-in to the Vision, Mission and Values of the organisation.

Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact
To offer high-quality meals at such low prices, Akshaya Patra followed several principles that may be useful to other organizations throughout the world.

LEARNING MODULES: Creating Synergy in a Four-Generation Workplace
This case study, written for undergraduate students, is based on generational differences in a metropolitan children’s museum.

LEARNING MODULES: Nokia - Values That Make a Company Global
Nokia conducted extensive reserach to understand how Nokia was perceived and how it might have to change. That research informed a number of actions and renewed the focus on Nokia’s culture and, in particular, its values.

Multiple Efforts Help Companies Advance Women
Four companies—Australian telecommunications firm Telstra Corp., the Royal Bank of Canada, Campbell Soup Co. and consulting firm Deloitte show the way with their efforts to recruit, develop and advance women in the workplace.

Removing Bias At The Workplace
HR must be proactively involved if an organization is to effectively eliminate bias. HR chiefs suggest a mix of institutionalized and informal processes to address bias.

Microfinance, Mega Impact
Microfinance is more than an innovative scheme to provide loans to poor people. At its core, it's about individual empowerment and dignity, says leading strategist Vijay Govindarajan.

Global investors collaborate on innovative climate change asset allocation study
Post-Copenhagen, global investors and Mercer collaborate to consider the impact of climate change on strategic asset allocation.

The U.S. Must Grab the Lead on Green
Leading strategy and innovation expert Vijay Govindarajan gives five suggestions for leading on the green front.

Building Your Self-esteem
If you feel that you are suffering from low self-esteem, you can take steps to improve it. Here are a few things that you can do right away, everyday, to enhance your self-esteem.