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Good: Some people think ethical business.
Better: Some think and talk ethical business.
Best: Some think, talk, and do ethical business.
To prevent business ethics disasters, focus on organizing the best business ethics process. Fixing process is possible; fixing people is far more difficult.
Teacher, Writer, Researcher
Teacher
- Recent faculty at Loyola Marymount University|Los Angeles, and California Lutheran University.
- Former faculty at Stanford University, Air University, and University of Redlands.
- Presentation: Collegial Development of Ethics in Management. Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, La Verne, CA, 2015.
- Presentation: Academic Honesty and Dishonesty -- Why, How, What (Not), Center for Teaching Excellence, Loyola Marymount University, 2016.
- Presentation: Experiential Ethics Training Design. Society for business Ethics Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
- Presentation: Unintended Signs: Unobtrusive Measures of National Leaders' Moral Reasoning Orientation and Stage. Society for Research in Adult Development 28th Symposium, Salem, MA, 2013.
- Presentation: Better Angels: Are You on the Right Path? Professional Development for Ethics Officers and Managers. With Frank Daly. Ethics and Compliance Officer Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2012.
- Presentation: Impact of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Other Human-Caused Catastrophes. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2006.
- Presentation: Learning Business Ethics: What Business Students and New Employees Need to Know About Ethics and Compliance. Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Teaching Business Ethics Conference, Boulder, CO, 2005.
- Presentation: Impact of Catastrophe on Pivotal National Leaders' Vision Statements: Correspondences and Discrepancies in Moral Reasoning, Explanatory Style, and Rumination. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, Dana Point, CA, 2004.
- Presentation: Impact of Catastrophe on Pivotal National Leaders' Vision Statements: Correspondences and Discrepancies in Moral Reasoning, Explanatory Style, and Rumination. Society for Research in Adult Development Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2004.
- Presentation: Shared Values. Defense Industry Initiative (DII) Best Practices Workshop, Washington, DC, 2002.
- Numerous other presentations.
Writer
- Author of Clearing the Air in Los Angeles: The Fight Against Smog, History Press, 2024.
- Co-author with Frank Daly of Business Ethics: The Path to Certainty, Tilde University Press, 2013.
- Author of Measure for Measure: The effects of ethics training, ethikos: The Journal of Practical Business Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 5, May 2020.
- Author of Tattling Syndrome: What To Do About It, ethikos: The Journal of Practical Business Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 1, January 2020.
- Author of The Wolf Situation: Using a Systems Approach in Business Ethics, ethikos: The Journal of Practical Business Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 2019.
- Author of The Goldilocks Principle and the Proper HERO: Perspective on the Ethics and Compliance Mission, ethikos: The Journal of Practical Business Ethics, pp. 9-13, September/October 2018.
- Author of Good News: How Companies Can Hear More Bad News. Compliance & Ethics Professional, Vol. 11, No. 20, pp. 29-33, 2014.
- Co-author with Frank Daly of Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing (And More). Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, 2007.
- Author of What's Right? Redesigning Business Ethics. OD Practitioner, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 42-46, 2007.
- Author of Bringing Employees on Board with Ethics. BizEd, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 60-61, 2006.
- Author of A Psychological Approach to Preventing Computer Abuse--A Case History. Computer Security Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 51-56, 1985.
- Numerous other publications.
Researcher
- Unintended Signs: Unobtrusive Measures of National Leaders' Moral Reasoning Orientation and Stage. Journal of Organizational Moral Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 49-71, 2012.
- Impact of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Other Human-Caused Catastrophes on Pivotal National Leaders' Vision Statements. Journal of Adult Development, Vol. 14, pp. 67-69, 2008.
- Impact of Catastrophe on Pivotal National Leaders' Vision Statements: Correspondences and Discrepancies in Moral Reasoning, Explanatory Style, and Rumination. Dare Association, 2007.
- Catastrophe's Impact on Leaders' Caring and Justice: Changes in Moral Reasoning Orientation. International Journal of Leadership Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 80-98, 2006.