Diversity and ethics go along way in the workplace and are soemthing to be taken very seriously. Every business should take pride in these categories and make sure they are implementing training programs so none of these issues conflict with their work.
This article talks about how phone hacking led a family to believe their daughter was still alive. This is when the hacking is uncalled for and used for the wrong reasons.
I think that this article goes to show us that no matter how much we like facebook, we need to be careful about what we are displaying to the world. There are still people with no morals who are going to take your information and run with it.
"A significant majority of the Canadian population appears to support a more permissive legislative framework for voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide."
I see a couple of ethical questions:
1. Is this improper censorship of websites or justified ceasing of sites that may be acting illegally?
2. Is it okay to apply a broad net that may catch more innocent fish than is justified?
This is actually most of the last paragraph of the post on this page but I thought it was a nice summary of the principles behind this group:
"In our concluding remarks, we touched on the connection between the biased images seen in the film and cognitive bias. The media continually recreates stereotypes, which generate cognitive biases, which lead to real-world discrimination in our workplaces and schools. How can we break that cycle? Educating ourselves about cognitive bias is a good start."
As far as I can see, it looks like this is a true story (and generally I trust NPR to have done their due diligence to test before they air a story). This guy is truely inspiring. Sometimes all people need is someone to get nice to them and treat them better than they think they deserve to be treated.
A trio of Connecticut money managers who split a $254 million Powerball jackpot say their new charitable trust is giving $1 million to five organizations that support veterans and military members who recently returned from deployments.
Spying an opening amid a credit crunch for many small companies, credit unions are expanding their offerings to entrepreneurs facing rebuffs from banks.
This is about how women are able to multi task at home better than men. At the end though it states that the women are more stressed about it and men thought it was a positive experience.
According to this article, men are very overconfident and women underestimate their performance. This is some of the reason for more men being in leadership roles.
Corporate Idealists are the change agents we must recognize and support if we
are to tackle the biggest challenges facing our world today: climate change,
food and water shortages, economic disparity. Big business can either solve or
exacerbate those problems; Corporate Idealists are working to make it the
former, not the latter.