Embedding codes
IBE Deputy Director, Rachael Saunders, reports on findings from the recent Business Ethics Network meeting on Embedding Codes
09 November 2023
Secret codes?
The IBE’s Associate Director, Prof. Chris Cowton, reflects on why some FTSE 350 companies don’t have a publicly available code of ethics and encourages them to be transparent about what they stand for.
31 May 2023
Lots done but more to do on FTSE 350 codes
Reflecting on the findings of FTSE 350 Codes of Ethics: greater clarity needed.
24 May 2023
FTSE 350 Codes of Ethics: greater clarity needed
An assessment of the codes of ethics of the UK’s leading companies.
15 May 2023
A little help
IBE’s Associate Director, Prof. Chris Cowton, reflects on the role of ethical decision-making models, the subject of our latest research report.
22 March 2023
FTSE 100 Ethical Decision-Making Models: good questions, good answers?
This report analyses the ethical decision-making models contained in the codes of ethics of the UK’s leading companies, the FTSE 100.
20 March 2023
Summary of the Hugh Kay lecture from Claire Ighodaro CBE
Deputy Director, Rachael Saunders, summarises the Hugh Kay lecture, Ethics Codes in Business - Choice, Courage, Counterproductivity.
08 March 2023
Ethics Codes in Business: Choice, Courage, Counterproductivity - Claire Ighodaro CBE
Catch up on the Hugh Kay Lecture from February 2023
28 February 2023
Ethics and staff communications
Read the latest network blog by Rachael Saunders, IBE's Deputy Director.
03 November 2022
The FTSE, ethical culture and what investors should want to know: an update and announcement
Read the follow-up blog from our Chair, Prof David Grayson CBE.
21 October 2022
Why the ethical behaviour of politicians matters to business
IBE Chair, Prof. David Grayson CBE addresses why the ethical behaviour of politicians matters to business, and indeed to rest of us too!
07 July 2022
Innovating Business Ethics: Lessons from refreshing a Code of Conduct
In the next blog of the Innovating Business Ethics series, Robert Smith, Director, Business Compliance and Ethics at Serco Group plc, shares Serco's mycode experience.
08 June 2022
Open conflict
Read the latest network blog by Mark Chambers, IBE's Associate Director (Governance).
03 March 2022
Financial Services Culture Board - 2021 FSCB Employee Survey
The FSCB surveyed over 45,000 employees to understand their views on the following 9 characteristics: honesty, respect, openness, accountability, competence, reliability, resilience, responsiveness, and shared purpose. The IBE has picked out some key findings that are directly relevant to business ethics.
11 November 2021
Seriously?
Are there any signs that a company doesn’t take its code of ethics seriously? Some research on prompt payment prompts some thoughts.
18 August 2021
The FTSE, ethical culture and what investors should want to know
As we launch our latest research report, FTSE 100 Codes of Ethics: room for improvement, our chair, Prof. David Grayson CBE reflects on the findings.
11 August 2021