January 24, 2018

Ethical leadership is essential, but not enough

by Prof Deon Rossouw | Published on 25 January 2018 for The Ethics Institute monthly newsletter, along with a press release version The need for ethical leadership is now much clearer and urgent than it has ever been since the dawn of the…

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Firefighters

October 24, 2017

Why organisations need to have ethics disaster management plans

by Prof Leon van Vuuren | Published on 25 October 2017 for The Ethics Institute monthly newsletter, along with a press release version Recently, several prominent and previously reputable organisations have experienced ethical…

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Atul Gupta

September 24, 2017

A nation starved of justice

by Kris Dobie | Published on 26 September 2017 for The Ethics Institute monthly newsletter, along with a press release South Africans are angry. And South Africans are hungry for justice. As a society, we have had to endure a…

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Green shoots of hope

August 23, 2017

Restoring Trust Beyond State Capture

by Prof Deon Rossouw | Published on 25 August 2017 for The Ethics Institute monthly newsletter, along with a press release version on 28 August 2017 Ethics is a precondition for safe, just, and prosperous societies. This truism has…

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Ethics and compliance handbook cover

July 23, 2017

“Get the ethics right, and you will always be compliant”

by Liezl Groenewald | Published on 25 July 2017 for The Ethics Institute monthly newsletter Companies the world over often struggle to balance ethics and compliance. Those that are regulated often see compliance as pre-eminent. Yet many…

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June 23, 2017

Thoughts on Peace Building

Liezl Groenewald recently attended the 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Military Ethics in Europe (EuroISME).  The theme of the conference ‘Restraint in War: Essential for a Just Peace?’ lent itself to…

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May 23, 2017

Leadership Derailment

In the last few articles, we discussed “toxic leadership” (also referred to as destructive leadership) and presented their characteristics, as well as the characteristics of their followers and colluders.  However, toxic leaders…

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April 13, 2017

Toxic Leadership: Protecting the Organisation from Toxic Leaders and Colluders

In the article entitled “What are the characteristics that define toxic leadership” we speculated about the nature of Zuma and whether he fits the mould of a toxic leader. In light of recent developments, it becomes hard not to admit that…

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March 22, 2017

Toxic Leadership: The Characteristics of Colluders

In the last article on toxic leadership, we delved into the characteristics of susceptible followers. In this article, Dr Paul Vorster looks a little more closely at colluders and differentiates them from susceptible followers by…

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December 1, 2016

Not a headline

This is a “how-to” on keeping your organization's ethics problems out of the headlines - not by hiding them from view but by preventing them from getting big enough to be "newsworthy".   ©Frank J Navran  What follows…

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