This prestigious conference is already in its 8th year. The professional organization and quality of the presentations has ensured that experts in this field attend and contribute to this conference every year.

”Pathos for Ethics; Leadership, Excellence and the Quest for a Sustainable Future” According to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, the existence of leadership pre-assumes three elements: Ethos for promoting Business Ethics, Logos and Logic for promoting Business Excellence and Pathos for Ethics being vital for the Sustainability of Business Excellence. The international economic status and its implications to employees The international economic uncertainty has a direct impact on economic structure affecting everyone’s business life. At the time of writing this article, the European consumers whether employees, investors or pensioners are very anxious due to the following reasons: increase in unemployment,…

The economy is uncertain, marketing budgets are tight, competition is tougher than ever and public trust is fading. Focus is needed on navigating during uncertain times and leading the way. In economic turmoil the accountability of market research in showing added value and return on investment is key. Implementing new consultancy-based skills in an ethical and creative way is essential. The ESOMAR CONGRESS explores the challenges ahead for markets, business and society and how research provides ethical, responsible and creative food for thought, recommendations and guidelines to help lead the way for better decisions, better results and a better world.

ABECC is the world’s largest, multi-industry gathering of ethics and compliance officers. Distinguished keynote speakers, leading subject matter experts, and the most prominent ethics and compliance officers in the field will address critical issues facing ethics and compliance practitioners today. ABECC provides the perfect opportunity for the exchange of creative ideas, and proven methods for implementing and maintaining ethics, compliance and business conduct programs.

Shaping a sustainable future! Can we overcome the crisis through a focus on human values and ethics? The ongoing economic crisis has highlighted the challenge of establishing stability and growth in the face of global recession. It has also brought into focus the critical importance of the human dimension in leadership styles and strategies. In the turbulent and globalized corporate environment of increased complexity and speed, traditional governance styles based on unrestricted risk- and profit-taking in corporate boardrooms seem to be giving way to new approaches that are more responsive to broader societal interests. While the risks involved in corporate…

The Conference has focused on the main theme of “Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibilities”. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility have become critical business issues in the scenario of the recent global economic meltdown. The main theme of the ICBE CSR-09 will be to relook at the role of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the changing economic scenario. Accordingly ICBE CSR-09 seeks participation from interested practitioners, academicians and students of management and policy makers from all over the world to contribute empirical and theoretical research papers including case studies on topics associated with the overall conference theme.…

2nd Global Conference: Ethics in Public Life Call for Papers: After last year’s successful inaugural conference, The Ethics in Public Life Inter-Disciplinary Network announces its second global conference. This inter-disciplinary project seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of ethics in public life. Politicians might use moral rhetoric and justifications for their actions, and public agencies and institutions claim to have ethically informed constitutions, policies and practices, but contemporary critiques have raised significant questions about how ethical public life is. Critics point to an absence of deliberative public engagement with ethical debates, the instrumentality and functionality to ethical…

Essays are being solicited for a special issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion on the timely theme of “religion, finance and ethics”. As the world recovers from the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, this special issue of the Bulletin will seek to explore issues of finance and economics as they relate to the academic study of the world’s religions. Of particular interest is the rise of Islamic finance, a topic much discussed by finance industry scholars and practitioners, as well as jurists, but comparatively under-analyzed in the field of religion studies. Aside from aspects…

A public conference identifying and exploring means to achieve accountability for extraordinary rendition in North Carolina and at the regional level. In extraordinary rendition, the U.S. government has "disappeared" detainees and secretly transported them to places abroad where they are held incommunicado and tortured during interrogation. *** INTERFAITH SERVICE ON TORTURE, 5:30 – 6:15 p.m., Thursday, April 8, Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School, Westbrook Bldg., 403 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC *** KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 8, "The Unresolved Legacy of Guantánamo," Scott Horton, Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine, Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, 308 Research Drive, Duke University,…

From Theory to Practice – How does business ethics matter? The aim of the conference is to focus on research regarding the reasons for organizations to take business ethics seriously by concentrating on motivations, consequences and implications of business ethics. As well as ongoing theoretical discussions, we are particularly interested in contributions that examine how business ethics is understood, applied, and enforced in practice. Contributions are invited from different fields of business ethics research. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Consequences of ethical and unethical behaviour in and between organizations Integration of business ethics in organizational…

3rd Bergamo-Wharton Joint Conference Bergamo (Italy), 1st-2nd July, 2010 STAKEHOLDER THEORY(IES): ETHICAL BASES, MANAGERIAL APPLICATIONS, CONCEPTUAL LIMITS www.unibg.it/bwconference Call for Papers The stakeholder approach to management offers a theoretical framework that aims to widen the perspective from which corporate strategies are formulated, shifting the focus away from shareholders to all those who are in some relevant way involved in the business enterprise. A basic idea in stakeholder thinking is that the company's survival and development are conditional upon its ability to take care of the network of relationships occurring among stakeholders. There exists both confusion and controversy about the concept…

The crisis of the financial markets has led to a crisis in the economic systems internationally. The concepts of more market liberalization and markets as places of self-organization have gone into turmoil. There are different levels at which the economic developments can be discussed ethically On the political level both greater transparency and more regulation in the economic sphere are discussed in relation to different economic policies. Where is globalization heading, and what about aspects of justice concerning North-South relations globally as well as gender issues? Is there a global need for a European-inspired “Social Market Economy”? What are the…

Even if it is impossible to find a single reason for or a solution to the challenges of the present global financial and economic crisis academics, politicians and practitioners mainly agree that at the core lies a lack of values. In response to the global crisis the United Nations Global Compact recently published The Global Economic Ethics Manifesto with the aim of defining common and shared moral principles and values which should be the basis of management in all types of business environments. Moreover during the Pittsburgh G20 Summit the President of the European Commission, Mr Barroso said that: “This…

SCCE’s Annual Institute is the primary education and networking event for professionals working in the compliance and ethics profession around the world. At this meeting, learn the latest methods and strategies for developing and improving compliance programs in this rapidly growing and evolving profession.

IMANA-Hofstra Ethics Symposium The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) and the Muslim Chaplain’s Office of Hofstra University invite you to attend the 2010 IMANA-Hofstra Ethics Symposium, September 17-18, 2010. The symposium’s theme is End of Life Issues: Ethical and Religious Perspectives. Intended audience are physicians, especially those in critical care medicine, emergency medicine, maternal fetal medicine and neonatology, medical bioethicists, chaplains, students in these fields and interested individuals.

The Commissioner of the US FDA has stated the agency will be more enforcement oriented and quicker to issue Warning Letters. This presentation will review current enforcement practices of the US FDA with actual Warning Letters recently issued to medical device companies. We will explore how the company failed to meet FDA expectations in response to inspection and other violations. In the presentation we will attempt to determine what response by the manufacturer may have prevented the issuance of the Warning Letter. We will look at improvements to the Quality System as well as responses to the FDA-483 that was…

A Conference on Applied and Medical Ethics Global trends in population aging are clear: Population aging anticipated over the next fifty years has been described as unprecedented, pervasive, enduring, and with profound implications for many facets of human life. Our attitudes towards the aging and their social and medical care raise profound questions of ethics and social justice. Particular questions concerning moral and ethical aspects of health care as well as general questions that belong to bioethics or even meta-ethics are to be asked and may be even answered. This occasion may be the right one for these experts to…

A good specification not only defines the product and process being purchased by the customer, but also serves as an extension of the purchasing contract. Specifications are customers greatest tool for ensuring products received meet the quality and safety standards expected. Good specifications must be complete and accurate. All requirements must be contained within the specification. Shipping, receiving expectations, prerequisite quality programs, packaging guidelines and any other requirements should be detailed in the specification. Accuracy is the second attribute critical to a product specification. The supplier must have processes, programs and materials capable of meeting the specification and the resultant…

Many leading organizations have recognized the need to manage environmental risks and demonstrate a commitment to sustainability and related environmental compliance. The pressure to do so is unrelenting in the United States and European Union where children and young adults are committed to the green/sustainable revolution. This mindset is bound to expand to the rest of the world. In the West, there is no going back to the times of industrialization without regard to environmental issues. Countries like China that have been obsessed with industrial expansion regardless of the environmental consequences are likely to modify their behavior to support sustainably…

In 2008, a new edition of ISO 9001 went into effect. The literature says the new version doesn't introduce any new requirements but only clarifications to the existing requirements. One of the clarifications involves the use of Outsourced Processes in the Quality Management System. The changes clarify the organization's responsibility for conformity to all customer, regulatory, and statutory requirements. The changes reinforce the need for control over outsourced processes and recommend using the methods found in the ISO 9001 Purchasing clause. These changes also include suppliers who are part of the same parent organization, such as a separate department or…