Christopher Bauer

When is the best time to start ethics and values training? I suppose the obvious-sounding answer is, "Today at the latest!" However, if you are looking to end up with the very most effective ethics and values training, that answer may not really suffice.

When we take full responsibility for our behavior—when we really own what we do and the impact of our —we immediately impose a range of extremely hardy pressures on ourselves to do the right thing. These pressures range from wanting to be proud of a job well done to wishing not to be humiliated or punished for doing the wrong thing.

Many readers are either in one-person businesses, in very small departments in companies with just a handful of employees. Still others of you are in large organizations but doing some kind of freelance work on the side. What are the ethical challenges of "flying solo" or virtually so?

When looking at employee personal Internet use on the job, it's important to consider how you are going to use any monitoring data and, as a part of that, to also think about who will have access data and why.

A differentiation needs to be made between marketing and inducement. Can they really be confused when they seem to serve such different functions? Sometimes rather easily as it turns out.