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Ethics Isn't "Out There": It's Us and Our Choices

By Linda Fisher Thornton Much attention is paid to the tactics of ethics – the ethics codes, compliance plans and such. We can easily begin to think that ethics is something we can see and touch. Something finite. Something written in stone. Something outside of ourselves. But that’s not where ethics lives. Our ethics doesn’t live in the codes and manuals. Ethics is in the big and small things…

Ethics Isn't "Out There": It's Us and Our Choices

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What is Ethics?

By Linda Fisher Thornton

We are globally connected and becoming more aware of the complexity of our connections. We need a robust understanding of ethics – what it means, what it requires of us, and what we need to know and do to be ethical.

As we learn about ethics, we need to understand it in a multidimensional way.One-dimensional definitions lead us down a single path and prevent us from…

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Ethical Leadership: The "On Switch" For Adaptability

Ethical Leadership: The “On Switch” For Adaptability

By Linda Fisher Thornton

The post “Leader Competence: Will It Be A Multiplier or Divider?” generated some great discussion on social media. Here’s a quote from the post:

“Leader competence is either going to be a multiplier or a divider. When you have it, you multiply performance and trust, with exponential results. Without it, you divide your possible results by the incompetence factor.”

After…

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Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

  By Linda Fisher Thornton

This week’s question is about what defines our ethics – “Is our ethics based on who we are or what we do?” Some people would argue that we have a persona, a manner, that is either ethical or not. Others would say that it is our decisions and actions that define how ethical we are, and therefore our ethicality changes from moment to moment.

Instead of trying to decide…

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What is "Harm?" (It Depends On Your Perspective)

What is “Harm?” (It Depends On Your Perspective)

By Linda Fisher Thornton

Leaders interpret “harm” according to the perspective on ethical leadership they are using to make decisions. They may consider harm narrowly (only what would harm them) or broadly (what would harm others and society). 

At its most narrow, harm could be interpreted as harming me or my company’s profitability.

Broadening our view, harm may be interpreted as anything that…

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Got Ethics? Are You Positive?

Got Ethics? Are You Positive?

By Linda Fisher Thornton

Is your ethics training focused on positive values? In spite of all the bad news you’ve seen in the media about ethics, we don’t build ethical cultures by focusing on the negative. Let’s face it – thinking about fraud, embezzlement and conflict of interest won’t make us better leaders. But that’s what many of us are focusing on in our organizations.

The future of ethical…

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i want to be a good person but i dont know how so i mostly just agree with the last person to be shouty and patronising to someone else who can say the right shibboleths

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Shady shady shady...

I need to get out of this agency.

We're preparing to adopt a new EHR (electronic health record) so things are pretty tense around the agency.

In the last two weeks, 8 employees have resigned or just flat walked out. Which some of that is expected, thin the herd and all that. But deeper issues are at play apparently. 

Friday was a "staff appreciation" day for recovery month. They made a big speech, fed us lunch, and let us go early. Oh, except for the 7 employees that they rounded up, stuck in an HR conference room and told them they no longer had positions. With the new EHR, a lot of data entry will be done by only a few. So a lot of admin positions, apparently, are being cut. And instead of taking some time and respecting their employees by informing each of them individually, they decide to make it easier and just cut them all at once. 

My job description is changing, which I expected. But instead of one person, my supervisor, explaining what I'd now be responsible for, I have HER supervisor telling me one thing, the program manager telling me another, and various employees telling me what they've heard.

I've hit my frustration point. I used to think this was a great place to work. The agency seemed to treat their employees well. And on the surface, that's true. It's not until you get deeper or more connected to the administration that you see it's much uglier.

Five grievances against a program manager for sexual harassment apparently doesn't affect employment. He's still a supervisor and head of our judicial programs. 

Supervisors asking another departments employee to inform their fellow co worker that their job will be changing and must move offices to make way for said supervisors employee is apparently acceptable (that sentence is pretty convoluted, but I need to rant this out).

I keep applying for jobs. In the last three weeks I've applied to about 9 different jobs. If it's remotely related to social work and not counseling, I'm applying for it.

I just need to get out of here.