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Category: Culture

Total 26 Posts

Being an Effective Counselor During Difficult and Heart-Wrenching Ethical Situations – Michelle Egan

By • December 16, 2019 • 0 Comments
Being an Effective Counselor During Difficult and Heart-Wrenching Ethical Situations - Michelle Egan

Michelle Egan, the chief communications officer of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company discusses a number of key ethical issues including:
• Who owns the work you create at a company? And what do you do when a former co-worker asks for it?
• What to do when your company’s equipment causes the death a Middle schooler?
• Fighting the attack on the free flow of information
• How do you balance privacy with transparency?

Ethical Issues With Product Recalls and Cannabis – Loring Barnes

By • December 2, 2019 • 0 Comments
Loring Barnes discusses with EthicalVoices ethics issues with product recalls and cannabis

Loring Barnes, APR, Fellow, PRSA, an independent practitioner and Chair of her town’s Selectboard, discusses a number of key ethical issues including:
• Tough ethical decisions during product recalls
• How communicators should approach ethical issues around cannabis
• The quickest path to redemption after making an ethical lapse

The Ethical Importance of Discernment in Public Relations: Blake Lewis

By • October 28, 2019 • 0 Comments
The ethical importance of discernment in public relations: An EthicalVoices interview with Blake Lewis

Blake Lewis, the Principal and Founder of Three Box Strategic Communications. Discusses a number of key ethics topics, including:
• Ethical traps for Millennials and Gen Z
• The importance of discernment
• How to make ethics training a regular part of your culture
• How compromise can destroy who you are

Global Ethics and Technology Issues – How Public Relations Can Move A Company From Where It is to Where it Wants to Be: Torod Neptune

By • October 21, 2019 • 5 Comments
Torod Neptune discusses Global Ethics and Technology Issues and How Public Relations Can Move A Company From Where It is to Where it Wants to Be

Torod Neptune, the chief communications officer at Lenovo discusses a number of key global and technology ethics issues including:
• How to move companies from the organization they are today to the one they want to be
• Living brand values globally and locally
• Why addressing ethics issues with technology requires businesses to think at the top of the stream

Ethics, Sexism, Racism and Research: Angela Sinickas

By • September 30, 2019 • 0 Comments
Angela Sinickas discusses ethics, sexism, racism and research with Ethical Voices

Angela Sinickas the CEO of Sinickas Communications, discusses a number of key issues, including:
• What to do ethically when you realize you work at a company rife with sexism and racism
• Ethical missteps in the PR proposal process
• How ethics mistakes can haunt you for years (and how to overcome them)
• How to ethically deal with people with an agenda

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