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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
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
A really enjoyable session where I presented the subject of stress and burnout by firstly exploring a diagram I presented called the Human Function Curve. In this initial discussion I spoke about how we need activity in our lives in order to thrive and how having nothing to do is actually detrimental to our mental health.
The following sort of answer will not suffice ‘I am moral because being moral helps me achieve my goal (of being happy, wealthy, popular or whatever).’ The reason it will
The University of Reading is very helpful to us at Ethical Reading as those who have been to our evening meetup sessions will know. Ethical Reading also has two University
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
We set up Brighter and Ethical Workplaces with Brighter Berkshire with the aims of: helping to improve the mental well-being of individuals and teams in Reading’s workplaces and reducing the
I’d like to start by stating how impressed I am with the initiative behind, and the work already carried out by, Ethical Reading. It’s clear that meeting the serious challenges
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
We can distinguish between a broad and a narrow meaning of the term of the terms ‘fair’ and ‘fairness’. In the broad sense of ‘fair’, an action or outcome is
Firstly, from an ethical perspective, the most important driver for improving mental well-being in the workplace is the human cost and how it affects individuals, their families, colleagues and the
Our mission at Ethical Reading is to creating positive change in Reading. In an earlier blog we mentioned some of the statistics that compare Reading with other places to live and
Listen to Jim Bignal, one of our founders, being interviewed by Sir John Madejski on his weekly radio show, Round at Sir John’s, about Ethical Reading, our values and our hopes
So how do you apply ethical values in your day to day life? The table below gives an indication of how we see the mapping between our core ethical values
In the spirit of co-creation, we want to present our thoughts on a model for improving ethical behaviour. We would welcome your feedback and ideas. At its simplest, ethics is about
Following on from our December meetup on the topic of mental health in the workplace, we have now launched a project to enable us to focus more deeply on this
Everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect at work, yet sadly, bullying is all too common. A survey by YouGov in 2015 found that almost a
Our mission at Ethical Reading is to creating positive change in the greater Reading area. but why? How does Reading compare with other places in the UK? Does it need
Many thanks to the twenty four people who braved “the Beast from the East” to attend our third meetup. The great contribution made by everyone was really inspirational. When we
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
Ethical Reading’s core values are Respect Compassion Collaboration Responsibility Social purpose How do these translate into better business? Here is some evidence: Respect An article on incivility at work and how it
Ethical Reading’s first meetup was held on 31st October in the Library of the Great Expectations Hotel in Reading, Berkshire. Meetups are informal, open, relaxed events, which in due course
A number of scandals have emerged recently involving high executive pay, aggressive tax avoidance, mistreatment and bullying of staff, mis-selling and polluting emissions to mention just a few. Decisions (often
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