Ethics Readings and Resources

Sam Kolling argues that we have been wrong about one of our most basic assumptions about our personalities and character. Sam claims that we do not have a solid character that persists across time and situations. Instead, our personalities and moral behavior can be affected by something as simple as finding a dime in a phone booth, or standing close to a soap dispenser. Sam Kolling grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2016 earning a degree in Philosophy and commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry.

Talking ethics does not come naturally in our organisational life. Yet, safe, interesting, and normal ethics conversations when things are fine, and not in response to a scandal, help us develop ethical skill to deal with the ethical questions we all face.

The annual independence exam at the centre of the long-running and widespread cheating at KPMG operated as an open-book test where searching the internet for answers was allowed.

Too often, ethics training can be boring and ineffective. Storytelling can help—not just by keeping your participants awake, but also by helping them remember and act on what you teach.

Unconscious bias training has spread as an antidote to inequality and discrimination. But is it effective?

How can we use the big six ideas from Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, to improve our thinking and training?

An entertaining presentation by Dan Ariely on moral motivation and behaviour, distance, language, rationalisations etc.

Recent events of police misconduct in America sparked a nationwide debate on the effectiveness of police ethics training. In this article asks: do basic police academies prepare future police officers to be the ethical decisions makers we expect them to be?

Moral awareness is the ability to detect and appreciate the ethical aspects of a decision that one must make.

Ethical leadership prof Jonathan Haidt developed the metaphor of the elephant and the rider to describe our mind's two parts that sometimes conflict: a small rider sitting on the back of a very large elephant.