Business Ethics and the Brazilian Reality
Business ethics has been gaining strength since the 1960s, after various scandals involving fraud, corruption, bribes and bad behavior, showing the need to rethink the organizational practices, which are also charged by society. Corporate ethics include a set of organizational principles, values, and norms that can be derived from individuals, organizational statements, or the legal […]
AdmEthics´s aproved articles in journals and events
The Admethics research group maintains this channel of dialogue with the public as a way of sharing reflections on issues that cover moral issues within organizations. Today, in a complementary way, we present a summary of articles published recently in academic journals and articles approved for presentation at conferences produced by our students and teachers. […]
The Virtue in Daoism
Daoism is a philosophical and religious tradition from ancient China, whose most know work it’s the Dao De Jing, probably wrote by Laozi between 350-250 b.C. The legend says that Laozi was asked by frontier guard to share his wisdom, so Laozi wrote the teachings that are at the Dao De Jing. But maybe the […]
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University. He is also a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, where he has been working since 2008. American of Israeli origin, was born in 1967 in New York, became interested in the irrationality of daily behaviors, influenced […]
Researcher member of the AdmEthics group will present part of her dissertation research Project at IFC-Camboriú this Thursday
The PhD candidate in Administration, member of the AdmEthics group and NISP Researcher, Laís Silveira Santos, will present a part of her dissertation research Project this Thursday (June 29), at 7:00 pm, at the Instituto Federal Catarinense – Campus Camboriú (IFC-Camboriú). Laís is studying how moral dilemmas are experienced in the public management of risks […]
Morality Policies: What’s the limit?
Public policies have become one of the main ways in which governments interfere in society and modify individual and collective actions in the pursuit of their goals. It is common to think of the different types of public policies from the classification of Theodore Lowi, but several attempts to modify or expand this typology have […]
Virtues and Technology: Forgotten lessons
It was part of the imagery of ancient Greece the distinction between human perfection through the virtues and the technique/technology as a minor activity. The technique was considered a way of “cheating” physical reality, creating artifacts whose mere course of nature would not be able to do, in order to satisfy certain human desires. But […]
Are There Universal Values?
“Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead. By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and stood by the heap, a doe, […]
The virtues in the individual strengths of character
Whenever some scandal such as the corruption of members of some public agency or a financial scandal arising from some company occurs, questions about ethics again rise to the public debate. Lack of character, lack of virtue, unethical company, etc., are debated issues, but that often remain unsolved. But what, in fact, are these concepts? […]
Black Mirror and death of ethics
Giges was a peasant of sheep, a morally respectable citizen, who worked for the ruler of Lydia. After a great storm and a trembling in the earth, a crater was created in the place where he grazed the flock. In this crater, Giges found a corpse, which had a gold ring in his hand. When […]