Ethical Systems

It's incredible what Ethical Systems' founder and now collaborator, Jonathan Haidt, has done in such a short time to reshape our kids' relationship with smartphones and social media. When we're daunted by the next collective action problem, let's not forget what can be done! Read about it in a new article in The Free Press on the one-year anniversary of Jon's book, The Anxious Generation. Link to article: https://lnkd.in/ggiiaBfz #AnxiousGeneration #phonefreechildhood #JonathanHaidt #EthicalSystems

?? New Article! Jeff Kaplan, Ethical Systems collaborator and partner at Kaplan & Walker LLP, recently penned an insightful article titled "Should Your Board Include a Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer? The Case for Adding a CECO to the Board." In it, he explores the importance of having a Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer (CECO) on your board. ??? If you're looking to understand why this role is critical for fostering ethical leadership in your organization, this article is a must-read! Check it out and join the conversation: https://lnkd.in/gfkf8Gvn #EthicalLeadership #CECO #Compliance #Ethics #BusinessIntegrity #EthicalSystems #CorporateGovernance

Employees of the Dallas Stars apparently cross-checked thousands of hockey families, according to today's USA Today article, “'They'll hold you over a barrel': How NHL team's execs milked youth hockey families for profit." The article quoted?Todd Haugh, director of the Institute for Corporate Governance + Ethics at the Indiana University - Kelley School of Business. https://lnkd.in/gW3z2msW

Join us NEXT WEEK as we hear from Andrew Jennings of Emory University School of Law, moderated by Matthew Turk of Indiana University - Kelley School of Business Register ? https://go.iu.edu/8sDT

Join us NEXT WEEK as we hear from Andrew Jennings of Emory University School of Law, moderated by Matthew Turk of Indiana University - Kelley School of Business Register ? https://go.iu.edu/8sDT

A first principle of behavioral ethics and some theories of criminology is that most people are not inherently bad even if they do bad things. I happen to believe in that principle and think its pretty well established empirically, both in common sense and back of the envelope math as to how many unethical things people could do without punishment but don't, and also based on lab and field studies. The bulk of the research suggests that while we are all capable of doing the wrong thing under certain circumstances (even without understanding why we might be doing that thing) and we might even default to that capability in an automatic way, we usually do follow some overarching normative structure that is generally prosocial. That's important because it suggests that while there are tails on both ends of that distribution--one being people that will almost always do good regardless of the circumstances and the other that will almost always do bad--there is a large group in the middle that usually does good but can be swayed by circumstance. So if we can understand what sways that large group and figure out some smart interventions--everything from laws to norms to social influence to switching defaults--we can prevent a lot of wrongdoing. If there is an underlying normative agenda of behavioral ethics, that's probably it--help the mostly good people be better because that's the biggest cohort where the most impact can be made. (And you don't have to worry about the always good people.) But what about that other tail, the bad folks? I tend to think that group is way smaller than most people suggest, especially in the white collar world...but then you come across someone like Jack Abramoff, the notorious lobbyist who went to jail in the early 2000s for fraud. Abramoff was so corrupt that Congress amended a statute based on his actions, not once, but twice. And then he became the first person charged with flouting a law designed just for him. Incredible. Abramoff pleaded guilty but hasn't been sentenced yet. Some of those involved with the scheme are going to trial--the scheme involves crypto, naturally--which has brought Abramoff back into the white collar news. In the end, sometimes people are just bad even if they seem for a time to be mostly good and have learned the lessons behavioral ethics is trying to teach. Links to NYT article: https://lnkd.in/g_cDb-C5 Link to Ethics Unwrapped series on Abramoff: https://lnkd.in/gYa5ixiB Link to Law360 article about the recent related case: https://lnkd.in/g5jTArfy #whitecollarcrime #lobbying #fraud #rationalization #sometimesbadisbad #BEB

"The more you slash your low performers, the fewer high performers you'll wind up with" - Ethical Systems Collaborator Adam Grant in Business Insider ??READ MORE: go.iu.edu/8sM8

On moving from ?? downside to upside ?? .... For my behavioural science friends and wider risk network - ?? ?? ?? from Kate Coombs and I in Reuters now. ?? ?? ?? Wieke Scholten PhD Nicole Brigandi Joseph Marks, PhD Redis Zaliauskas Wee Nie Teh Chris Spedding Anna Koczwara PhD Teresa Thomson Tom Reader Nafa Ben Haddej (???? ?? ????) May Al-Baz Alison Mackey Manjyot Bhambra Shweta Pajpani David Grosse Steve Martin Sally Clark Sandro Boeri Nicholas Crapp Francesca Tamma Christian Hunt Antoine Ferrère Edward Gardiner Dario Krpan Laura Smart Bruce Fletcher Steve Lindo Stephen Finley Stefan Hunt LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science Todd Haugh Michael Hallsworth Kate Miller Jenny Robinson Carol Franceschini, PhD Max Beilby

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?? We are thrilled to welcome 21 new editorial board members: Mark Stevenson from Lancaster University, UK Jonathan Farrar from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Darryl Rice, PhD from Miami University, US Jae Chul Jung from UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management, US ? Barbara Culiberg from University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia Frank Belschak from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands? ? Anna Hannula from Tampere University, Finland Andreas Hoepner from University College Dublin, Ireland Howard Harris from University of South Australia, Australia Neal M. Ashkanasy from The University of Queensland, Australia? ? Ke Michael Mai from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China Suneal Bedi from Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, US Marjo-Riitta Diehl from Aalto University, Finland David Silver from The University of British Columbia, Canada Carson Young from SUNY Brockport, US Ulrich Leicht-Deobald from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Michael Baumann from The University of Texas at San Antonio, US Stefan Hoffmann from Kiel University, Germany Gunnar Gutsche from Universit?t Paderborn - Paderborn University, Germany Dr. Julia Benkert from Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany Encarnáción Ramos-Hidalgo from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain #JBEboard