I had some interesting meetings last week seeing two of the incredible and varied benefits of ICT services. But in both cases I noticed the common theme that technology can sometimes enable us to do things that don’t necessarily make sense to do.
The first was with Alice Ray, founder of a small software company called Ripple Effects. Ripple Effects produces a powerful platform for helping troubled youth learn skills and coping mechanisms to deal with situations with which they struggle. A light bulb went off when I realized that communicating via the computer doesn’t have to be an inferior form of an in person interaction. In some situations a computer can appear much less threatening and therefore a better tool than… Read the Full Post
I was recently asked to write a guest post for CEIL. If you are unfamiliar with the organization, CEIL is an independent organization designed to educate and share information with government and military professionals charged with identifying buying green goods and services. It might seem a bit odd, my writing for a government organization blog as a representative of a UK based telecom company, but I see a lot of overlap within government and corporate. Below is my guest post for the readers of CSR Perspective.
The central question asked of CR practitioners is “how far should a corporation go to ‘do good’ in society?” Or put another way, what, in addition to delivering a profit and following the law, should a responsible… Read the Full Post
Originally posted on the CROA blog.
By Richard Crespin
As Kevin Moss mentioned in his earlier post, the CROA’s Professional Development Committee drafted an ethics code and came up with a set of ethical dilemmas to test it. In this post we layout the overall concept of ethical dilemmas and propose the first dilemma for you — our field testers — to consider.
Ethical Dilemmas: Four Classics
In his book, How Good People Make Tough Choices, Rushworth Kidder defined an ethical dilemma as a right vs. right choice. Morals or laws govern right vs. wrong. We use ethics to choose between right vs. right. Kidder identified four classic ethical dilemmas:
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I posted this on the blog of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association on October 4, 2010
Doctors have an ethics code. PR professionals, accountants, lawyers, ombudsman, engineers and ethics officers all have ethics codes. In many ways, a well crafted ethics code defines a profession; it gives guidance to its practitioners to support the most taxing judgment calls they will have to make and articulates its defining values to those outside the profession.
Deciding between what is right and wrong can sometimes be difficult. Corporate Responsibility practitioners often have to go further and decide between two rights. We also have occasion to stand between a legally permissible and commercially compelling course of action, but one that is morally wrong and will ultimately… Read the Full Post
I am speaking at the 4th Sustainable Supply Chain Summit in San Francisco at the end of October so I have started trying to synthesize some of my thoughts on supply chain issues in preparation for preparing my presentation.
When I first joined the CR field a few years back, I had a very enlightening conversation with the VP of Sustainability at a major retail brand. The company is recognized as a sustainability leader.
I was probing to what extent this company, as a customer of BT’s, took BT’s corporate sustainability credentials into account in vendor decisions.
In conversation we identified three classes of vendor:
Sustainability of topmost importance – Vendors that provide products that will be visible and probably sold, with vendor… Read the Full Post
