by Gill Ringland | 6 February 2019 | Business ethics, Ethics, Leadership
Ethical Reading Director Gill Ringland asked Dr Kleio Akrivou of Henley Business School to share some of the insights she had from teaching ethics to international students. “Dr Akrivou, you teach ethics at Henley Business School to students from a wide range of...
by Emma Borg | 23 November 2018 | Business ethics, Ethics, Leadership
Most people are familiar with George Santayana’s famous remark that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and, with the ten year anniversary of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy looming large on the horizon (15th September, 2008), now...
by Mark Neild | 7 June 2018 | Leadership
I was recently asked about the impact of transactional leadership on business. Given that a part of Ethical Reading’s vision is to reduce workplace stress through better leadership, I thought that sharing my answer might be of interest. Transactional leaders manage...
by Julia Rebholz | 7 May 2018 | Business ethics, Ethics, Leadership
Ethics are a CEO-level concern at most companies. Top leaders want an ethical organisation, and not just because it’s the right thing to do. Research pulled together by the Blueprint for Better Business[1] shows that workforces with these qualities are 31% more...
by Gill Ringland | 2 December 2017 | Business ethics, Event Reports, Leadership, Well-being
Nearly 30 people met at the Great Expectations Hotel in Reading on the 28th November to discuss mental health at work. Keith Leslie, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mental Health Foundation told us about the massive adverse effect of poor mental health in the...