From the Director
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| Dr. Daniel E. Wueste |
Welcome to the latest issue of RIE’s Issues and Perspectives. I invite you to explore and enjoy the articles and links below and I ask your indulgence, as I do something rather different in this space than I have done in the past.
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Ethics and Leadership: An Executive’s Perspective
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| Catherine Heigel |
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Rutland Fellow Represents RIE and CU at Climate Change Conference in Cancun
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| Dr. Allen Thompson |
CU Ethics Bowl
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Clemson students compete in regional Ethics Bowl. Left to right: Nikki Powell, Yancey Appling, Calla Jean, Spencer Taylor (speaking) and Courtney Dixon image by: Clemson University |
After winning the Atlantic regional ethics bowl, Clemson’s Orange Wave is headed to Cincinnati for the nationals. The five team members and seven assistants are currently working hard on their analysis of the 15 case studies, which raise ethical questions on a wide variety of ethical issues from industrial policy in Haiti to ethnic portrayals in old movies. This is the first year Clemson has fielded an all female team and Coach Kelly Smith says it’s one of the best teams he has ever seen. Keep us in your thoughts on March 3rd as we attempt to win another national title!
UPDATE
At the national competition in Cincinnati, Clemson’s team added to it’s five straight wins in the Atlantic regional with two wins over Manhattan College and DePauw and a tie against Iowa State. This brought our record to 8 rounds of competition without a defeat. Unfortunately, that was reversed in the first round of the quarterfinals when we suffered a narrow loss to Montana State. This was quite disappointing, but on the positive side three of the team members are planning to return for next year, so we should have excellent prospects. Kudos to our 2010-2011 Orange Wave team members and alternates!
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UPDATE
At the national competition in Cincinnati, Clemson’s team added to it’s five straight wins in the Atlantic regional with two wins over Manhattan College and DePauw and a tie against Iowa State. This brought our record to 8 rounds of competition without a defeat. Unfortunately, that was reversed in the first round of the quarterfinals when we suffered a narrow loss to Montana State. This was quite disappointing, but on the positive side three of the team members are planning to return for next year, so we should have excellent prospects. Kudos to our 2010-2011 Orange Wave team members and alternates!
Tigers Talk Ethics
The creative inquiry team Tigers Talk Ethics will be showing their premiere episode February 23rd. The idea behind the project is to create a talk show that brings Clemson students together to discuss ethical issues they are especially interested in. This first episode tackles two related issues: lowering the drinking age and legalization of marijuana. The show will air on the Clemson television network as well as the Internet. There is also a webcast of discussions of Brother Micah, the itinerant preacher who comes to campus regularly, which will soon be available on the TTE website.
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Reflections of a Millennial Generation Alumnus
This spring, another group of young professionals will graduate from Clemson and move into the workforce. This group, like others from the last few years, will be walking into corporate worlds drastically different from previous generations. The Millennial generation of 18-29 year olds grew up in a time marred with corporate scandal, fraud, and abuse. From Enron at the turn of the century to the trials and tribulations caused by Bernie Madoff and even more recently with the British Petroleum disaster, ethics issues have dominated the public’s perceptions of the corporate landscape.
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Audience-Centric Storytelling: To listen to the "Truth" ... whose truth?
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| Bobby Rettew |
I wrote this article for my blog on January 16, 2011; one week and one day after Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was tragically shot in Tucson, Arizona. This was in response to the week's events following that shooting, an exploration of "Truth".
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Resolving the Shortage of Organs for Transplantation: Ethics, Science, and Technology
On November 20th in 2009 the Rutland Institute for Ethics and the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute convened a one-day conference at the Medical University of South Carolina with the goal of developing a consensus report on strategies for resolving the critical shortage of organs for transplantation.
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Ethics Challenges and Responses
Challenging Cheating Testing assumptions about academic dishonesty at Harvard
Published: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Drs. Wueste and Fishman were interviewed for and quoted often in this article.
Drs. Wueste and Fishman were interviewed for and quoted often in this article.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/10/students-cheating-integrity-college/
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Conversation with Gary Kaplan, CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center
For those who enjoyed hearing from GHS CEO Mike Riordan in the last issue, and have a continuing interest in the issues around health care reform, we share the following article featured in Ethix, another online newsletter. It is part two of an Ethix special edition on health care.
http://ethix.org/2011/01/11/dr-gary-s-kaplan-determined-steps-to-transformation **************************************************************************
Lessons from the Bacteria: How Good Culture Trumps Bad Leadership
December 6 commentary from Rushworth M. Kidder
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The Profits if Nonprofit: The surprising results when drug development and altruism collide
Volume 25 | Issue 1 | Page 54 Date: 2011-01-01
The Profits of Nonprofit - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57891/#ixzz1BJJAgJ68 **************************************************************************
Four-Way Test a Good Barometer
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2011/jan/08/four-way-test-good-barometer/
Fostering Academic Integrity Conference; American University in Cairo, Egypt
Fostering Academic Integrity Conference
American University in Cairo, Egypt
December 4-6, 2010
In early December 2010, RIE director Dan Wueste and ICAI director Teddi Fishman, along with Don McCabe, Senior Fellow and Founding President of ICAI, and Tricia Bertram Gallant, Chair of ICAI’s Advisory Council, participated in an international conference hosted by the American University in Cairo, at its campus in Cairo, Egypt.
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Favorite Corporate Values Statement
As we come upon (or you provide to us) some simple, direct values statements from companies, we will share them with you. Just one reminder: make sure that your operational values match those that you state!
The first one we want to share comes from First Sun Management Group. Owners Joe Turner and Kelly Durham have been working to make and keep a values-based culture for over twenty years. This is one of their tools.
Integrity: Are we honest?
Fairness: Is it the right thing to do?
Performance: Do we give our best?
Relationships: Do we care about others?
If a customer has a problem: listen, apologize, fix it, say Thanks!
Worth repeating from "Facebook"
Brian Hamilton said that he “needs to keep reminding himself that if knowledge is the antidote to fear, then fear is the marketing arm of stupidity.”
What a great extension to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “knowledge is the antidote to fear” quote. Thanks Brian!
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