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AI could undermine managers' judgment unless used carefully, study warns
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-ai-undermine-judgment.html
> Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has become a routine part of working life, but overreliance on the technology may erode managers' ability to build moral insights, contextual understanding and know-how to get a job done, according to a new study from the University of Bath.
Surely “erode managers' ability to build moral insights” is a big feature of AI™?
Eliminate the risk of their moral compunctions reducing profits.
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BUSINESS ETHICS FEED records of PAST PERFORMANCE. Ethics practices effect a company past performance rating. Not meeting the challenges can jeopardize an industry reputation and success.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/business-ethics-feed-government-records-of-past-performance/
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Business Ethics Feed Government Records of Past Performance
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson
” The practical aspects of how business ethics effect a company past performance rating and how not meeting the associated challenges can jeopardize an industry reputation and business success.”
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“It is vital to maintain solid ethical business practices in dealing with customers and industry partners.
Maintaining an Ethical Company Image
IGNORANCE ON POLICY AND REGULATORY MATTERS IS NOT AN EXCUSE
The small business faces a front-end-loaded and ongoing learning challenge in understanding the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Unallowable Costs, Organization Conflict of Interest (OCI) and many other similar policies the federal government invokes.
A continuous learning process must include evaluating the impact of these requirements, developing consistent processes and systems to meet and maintain them or risk poor ratings on proposals, audits and performance; even the denial of an invoice payment.
In short, the government has the right to audit, examine and approve your internal operations for conformance to the law before granting a contract or paying a bill. These are not preferences by contracting officers. They are federal contracting laws.
The astute small business learns the law and incorporates compliance in its business practices.
CONTRACTING PERSONNEL IN ACQUISITION ROLES HAVE VARYING LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROFESSIONALISM
The US Government and its prime contractor cadre form a massive professional base. Although they conduct training in policy and regulation to their acquisition professionals, these professionals are rotated frequently and/or encounter contracting authority as only one role among many in their principal professional endeavors.
Small business systems are unique to a company. Documenting them and conveying their compliance to regulations in a clear, lucid way to auditors, agency buyers/contracting officers and other government customers is a vital part of avoiding misunderstandings regarding compliance issues.An additional concern with prime contractors is protecting intellectual and proprietary data, such as rates and factors, while participating in the assist audit process used by the government to avoid risk of undesirable disclosure from one firm to another.
If, during the course of marketing, proposing and negotiating government contracts with government and prime contractor personnel, a small business encounters lack of professionalism, misunderstanding of the regulations or defiance of them, the occurrence must be escalated to higher authority with tact, judgment and the long term objective of not only obtaining new business, but staying in business.
Managing Government Teaming Relationships
DISCLOSURES ARE MANDATORY
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.203-13 in 2008 made mandatory that contractors must disclose past, present or pending violations of contract law to the government. Not adhering to this requirement can be costly in terms of poor past performance records, legal expenses and financial judgments.
FAR 52.203-13 (3) – Mandatory Disclosure
TRAINING IN GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
As fast as things move these days if we don’t train and communicate effectively we are running very high risks. The modern era in which we live demands that training be sophisticated, interactive and responsive to changing times. It should evolve out of core company processes and contain feedback mechanisms.
Some training will be global, such as policy, corporate ethics and human relations. Other training will be specialized, such as changes in law, company policy or technology by functional areas.Principal among the topics at the head of the list for generic training in the art of something would be “Communicating Effectively” to employees to customers, to regulators; both orally and in writing.
Small Business Company Trainng
SUMMARY
Small business must evaluate regulations then communicate and enunciate a company ethics policy and processes that insure compliance with laws and regulations, training personnel on them in the process.
In doing so, disclosures will then be positive and the business will not become the subject of negative press releases by a government agency. (Examples below)”
Portrait of a Crooked Government Contractor
Star Power And The Military Industrial Complex
Business Ethics Feed Government Records of Past Performance
#books #BusinessEthics #governmentContracting #news #PastPerformance #technology -
It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DoiansHqk
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257601
#HackerNews #Amazon #Accountability #FairCompetition #BusinessEthics #TechNews #VideoDiscussion
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Business ethics are essential for building trust, accountability, and long-term organizational success. Ethical business practices help strengthen relationships with customers, employees, and society while supporting sustainable growth.
#BusinessEthics #CorporateGovernance #Leadership #Business #EthicalBusiness
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Analysis of Donald Trump Jr.'s Ethical Dilemmas in Business Ventures
📰 Original title: 'Desperate' Don Jr.'s 'shameless corruption' pursuit is doomed to fail: Analyst
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/analysis-of-donald-trump-jr-s-ethical-dilemmas-in-business-ventures.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019647
#HackerNews #corporategreed #productquality #consumerawareness #businessethics #qualityoverprofit
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FYI: Nadella says using AI models forces firms to leak their own know-how: Every prompt and correction employees make can quietly train AI vendors on a firm's own know-how, Microsoft's CEO argues. Who ends up controlling that learning? https://ppc.land/nadella-says-using-ai-models-forces-firms-to-leak-their-own-know-how/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DataPrivacy #BusinessEthics
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Should Companies Audit What Employees Post on Social Media?
Workplace discussions around responsible social media use are becoming a key part of modern corporate governance. Photo: Vitaly Gariev via Unsplash.Dear Cherubs, every employee has a smartphone, a social media account, and, occasionally, the confidence to post something that makes the legal department reach for the aspirin. The question isn’t whether companies notice anymore. It’s whether they should actively monitor what relevant employees post online.
The answer, in many cases, is yes—but with boundaries.
WHO COUNTS?
Not every employee represents a company in the same way. The warehouse worker posting holiday photos isn’t in the same position as the CEO announcing “exciting news” before the stock market opens. A software engineer leaking confidential product details isn’t the same as someone sharing pictures of their dog wearing a tiny hat.
Roles matter. Executives, senior managers, public relations staff, salespeople, recruiters, customer service representatives, and anyone with access to sensitive information can significantly affect a company’s reputation or even its legal standing.
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, companies must ensure material information is disclosed fairly to investors. One careless post from a senior executive could create regulatory headaches and market confusion.
THE FINE LINE
Auditing social media shouldn’t mean turning into Big Brother with a Wi-Fi connection.
Employers generally have legitimate reasons to monitor public posts when they relate directly to company interests, such as confidential information, harassment, discrimination, threats, or conduct that damages the business. What employees discuss privately with friends or within lawful private spaces is a different matter and may be protected by employment laws or privacy legislation depending on the country.
That’s where many companies stumble. The goal isn’t to police opinions. It’s to manage risk.
A sensible social media audit focuses on business-related concerns rather than personal beliefs unrelated to work. Otherwise, the company risks becoming the story instead of preventing one.
COMMON SENSE WINS
According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), many employers already include social media expectations in workplace policies. The best policies are surprisingly boring—and that’s a compliment.
They explain what confidential information is.
They remind employees not to imply they speak for the company unless authorised.
They encourage respectful online behaviour.
And they outline what happens if someone ignores those rules.
No mystery. No secret surveillance. Just expectations.
Training may actually be more valuable than monitoring. Many social media disasters aren’t malicious—they’re accidental. A frustrated employee vents after work. An enthusiastic executive posts too early. Someone shares a client story without realising confidentiality applies online just as much as it does in the office.
According to thisclaimer.com, digital reputation has become one of the fastest-moving business risks because online content spreads globally in minutes while apologies travel considerably slower.
The smartest companies therefore treat social media governance like cybersecurity: prevention first, enforcement second.
Ultimately, companies absolutely should pay attention to what relevant employees publicly post when those posts could affect customers, shareholders, confidential information or the organisation’s reputation. But auditing should never become blanket surveillance of employees’ personal lives.
Good governance protects both the company and its people. Bad governance simply creates another PR crisis waiting to trend.
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #businessEthics #Compliance #corporateGovernance #employees #humanResources #leadership #privacy #reputationManagement #socialMedia #Workplace -
RE: https://berlin.social/@kingconsult/116863230565529900
Auch diese Geschäftspraxis ist mit den Werten und Zielen vieler Akteure, die sich auf Meta-Dienste wie #Instagram und #Facebook verlassen, nicht vereinbar. Es ist Zeit für eine #SocialMedia-Wende.
Wir unterstützen dabei.
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a
#HackerNews #EggBandits #PriceFixing #CrimeNews #BusinessEthics #FoodIndustry
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Seasonal Compassion Is a Failed Operating Model
By Cliff Potts, CSO & Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
A Predictable Pattern
Every year, institutions across the developed world engage in a predictable, short-lived surge of concern for poverty, homelessness, and economic precarity. The timing is not accidental. It coincides almost entirely with the Christmas season.
During this period, corporations, governments, faith institutions, and media organizations briefly acknowledge the existence of the poor. Resources are allocated, messaging shifts toward empathy and generosity, and suffering is framed as tragic but temporary—implicitly solvable through limited charitable action.
Then the calendar advances. Budgets reset. First-quarter priorities reassert themselves. The systems that produced widespread insecurity resume without modification, now buffered by the reputational credit earned during the holidays.
This is not an aberration. It is the operating model.
Compassion as Reputation Management
Seasonal compassion functions as a reputational offset, not a corrective mechanism. It allows institutions to appear responsive without addressing root causes. In business terms, poverty is treated as a public-relations risk rather than a systemic market failure.
Concern is carefully bounded in time and scope. It is intense enough to be visible, brief enough to be harmless, and structured to avoid disruption to existing incentives and power arrangements.
The Market Cost of Impoverishment
What is rarely acknowledged is that large-scale impoverishment actively shrinks markets.
When individuals and communities fall into relative or abject poverty, they are removed from meaningful participation in market dynamics. They cannot consume, invest, innovate, or contribute at scale. Their exclusion represents not fiscal discipline, but lost demand, lost productivity, and foregone growth.
From a purely economic standpoint, allowing populations to become this disadvantaged is not efficiency—it is value destruction.
Businesses that tolerate or benefit from systems that impoverish large segments of society undermine their own long-term profitability. Markets cannot expand when purchasing power collapses. Innovation stagnates when survival replaces opportunity. Stability erodes when precarity becomes normalized.
Christianity as Symbol, Not Substance
Christianity, when invoked during this season, is typically reduced to symbolism rather than substance. The figure of Jesus is used to justify generosity while his actual teachings—on debt, power, exclusion, and material need—are operationally ignored.
His emphasis was never on sentiment, but on outcomes. He addressed hunger when it existed. He disrupted systems that normalized deprivation. He did not propose seasonal remedies for permanent conditions.
What we practice instead is managed compassion: bounded, time-limited concern designed to preserve comfort, profit, and institutional continuity while producing minimal structural change.
Exporting a Broken Model
This failure is not confined to any one nation. It is exported.
So-called “developing” economies are encouraged to adopt the same economic frameworks—precarity-based labor, extractive growth models, normalized inequality—that have already demonstrated their inability to produce durable human security. The result is not development, but replication: the same failures, scaled globally.
From a governance and business perspective, this approach is indefensible.
The Year-Round Test
Poverty is not an anomaly within an otherwise healthy system. It is a predictable outcome of policy choices, incentive structures, and economic priorities. Treating it as a seasonal concern guarantees its persistence while steadily eroding the very markets businesses depend on.
If Christianity—or any ethical framework—is to have relevance beyond decoration, it must inform year-round decision-making: fiscal policy, labor standards, housing strategy, healthcare access, and development models. Not symbolically. Operationally.
And if we refuse to fix the causes of relative and abject poverty the rest of the year, nothing we do during the Christmas season will ever matter.
For more social commentary, please see https://Occupy25.com
APA References
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2015). In it together: Why less inequality benefits all. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264235120-en
World Bank. (2020). Poverty and shared prosperity 2020: Reversals of fortune. World Bank Publications. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1602-4
International Monetary Fund. (2015). Causes and consequences of income inequality: A global perspective. IMF Staff Discussion Note SDN/15/13.
Stiglitz, J. E. (2012). The price of inequality: How today’s divided society endangers our future. W. W. Norton & Company.
#BusinessEthics #capitalism #Christianity #corporateResponsibility #developmentEconomics #economicInequality #homelessness #marketFailure #Poverty #socialJustice #systemicPoverty #WPSNews
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ESG: Kunci Masa Depan Bisnis Berkelanjutan di Era Digital
Di tengah meningkatnya perhatian terhadap perubahan iklim, tanggung jawab sosial, dan transparansi perusahaan, konsep ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) telah menjadi salah satu indikator utama dalam menilai keberlanjutan sebuah bisnis. Tidak hanya investor, tetapi juga konsumen, pemerintah, dan mitra bisnis kini semakin mempertimbangkan praktik ESG sebelum mengambil keputusan. Foto di atas menggambarkan bagaimana teknologi digital memainkan peran penting dalam implementasi ESG. […]https://frnstudio.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/esg-kunci-masa-depan-bisnis-berkelanjutan-di-era-digital/
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U.S. President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/16/markets/trump-trades-wall-street/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #donaldtrump #stocks #us #businessethics #corruption
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Prudential Life Insurance has suspended sales for an additional 180 days after receiving more complaints related to the alleged misuse of customer funds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/22/companies/prudential-six-months/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #prudentiallife #insurance #corporategovernance #fraud #lifeinsurance #businessethics
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Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud
#HackerNews #ExCEO #ExCFO #Fraud #AI #Bankruptcy #LegalNews #BusinessEthics
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New from The Examiner:
“A Slovak’s American Misadventure” — a deep dive into a transatlantic saga involving staged activism, corporate pressure tactics, and a failed $23m extortion attempt.
A striking example of how performative outrage can carry real-world consequences.
Read here: https://the-examiner.com/a-slovaks-american-misadventure/
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The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office and the Fair Trade Commission searched Eneos Wing's Tokyo branch in a second day of raids as part of a probe into alleged price-fixing of gas oil sold to businesses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/05/japan/crime-legal/gas-oil-cartel-raid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ftc #businessethics #eneos #oil
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A spotlight has fallen on Prudential Life Insurance’s fully commission-based remuneration system, which is thought to have been a factor that led some of its employees to commit fraud over more than three decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/12/companies/prudential-followup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #prudentiallife #insurance #corporategovernance #fraud #lifeinsurance #businessethics
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The intense performance-based system at Prudential Life Insurance has been identified as a major factor behind the rampant misconduct uncovered at the company, newly appointed CEO Hiromitsu Tokumaru says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/10/companies/prudential-life-new-ceo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #prudentiallife #insurance #corporategovernance #fraud #lifeinsurance #businessethics
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Lakota philosophy refers to money as "Green Frog Skin"—a poignant warning against mistaking a medium of exchange for the life force it represents.
After 40 years in accounting and finance, I see the same pattern in organizational life: a "pleonexia" where the pursuit of more drives out actual meaning.
I’m exploring these intersections of wisdom traditions and modern business.
https://terraphilosophica.substack.com/p/green-frog-skin
#Philosophy #Ethics #Theology #IndigenousWisdom #BusinessEthics -
Prudential Life Insurance will suspend sales of new insurance policies following the discovery of widespread financial misconduct involving current and former employees. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/04/companies/prudential-life-suspension-sales/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #prudentiallife #lifeinsurance #insurance #corporategovernance #fraud #businessethics
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The former chairman of publishing giant Kadokawa has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison for bribes linked to sponsorship contracts for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/22/japan/crime-legal/kadokawa-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #2020tokyoolympics #corruption #businessethics #kadokawa #japanesecourts #haruyukitakahashi
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“Little Boxes” popularized by #PeteSeeger and written by #MalvinReynolds is literally a satirical song about conformity, the middle class, and suburbs.
There is no folk song that you can choose that would ever be appropriate for a commercial. It’s an insult to the entire genre, not just to the memories of these two musicians, to use this song in this way.
Time for a blog post because I’m very upset.
#FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #LittleRedSongbook #IWW #Business #Marketing #BusinessEthics
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I don’t know if it’s one of his kids or just a random publishing company, but whoever is controlling the song rights to Pete Seeger’s music has decided to completely defile his memory by letting Dunkin Donuts use a song about the horrors of commercialism and capitalism destroying individuality in a new cutesy coffee commercial.
This is so wrong on so many levels.
#FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #LittleRedSongbook #IWW #Business #Marketing #BusinessEthics (or lack thereof)
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Workplace bullying is not only a productivity problem but a moral test—and this paper argues that bystanders are more likely to act constructively when guided by conscience (synderesis) than by consequence-based ethics alone.
Feel free to give it a read.
Vveinhardt J, Deikus M. Synderesis vs. Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Workplace Bullying Prevention. Social Inclusion 2025, 13, 8406. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.8406#WorkplaceBullying #Mobbing #BusinessEthics #MoralPsychology #OpenScience
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Elon Musk’ın 56,milyar dolarlık maaş paketi, mahkeme tarafından 1,$ sembolik ceza ile yeniden değerlendirildi. Kurumsal ücret politikalarında şeffaflık ihtiyacı, bu kararla bir kez daha gündeme gird. Detaylar link.
🚩 #ElonMusk #ExecutiveCompensation #CorporateGovernance #Transparency #CEO #BusinessEthics
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If any of my academic connections need a guest speaker for the spring semester, I’m working on an article about how Arizona Beverage Company is potentially devaluing their entire brand by making a deal with Circle K to commit price discrimination in the weirdest way possible. And people at my institution aren’t going wild for it so I need to try it on a different audience.
#AcademicChatter #Academia #DisabledAcademic #Economics #PricingTheory #ConsumerBehavior #BusinessEthics #Business