Month: January 2011

Artemis Management Consultants
Artemis Management Consultants specializes in helping organizations manage change. Artemis helps organizations conduct needs assessments, build teams, train and coach managers, re-design work and plan and implement culture change initiatives.

Boston College Center for Work Family
The Center for Work and Family at Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management is a research organization that promotes employer and community responsiveness to families. The guiding vision of the Center is the strengthening of families, broadly defined to reflect the diversity throughout our communities today. The Center’s activities fall into three broad categories: research, employer partnerships, and policy initiatives.

Child Elder Care Insights (CECI)
The mission of CECI is to help employees address, identify and resolve their personal problems through a comprehensive and high quality dependent care resource and referral program that is professional, accessible, voluntary and confidential. CECI’s fundamental commitment is to maximize the emotional well-being and related job performance and productivity of employees.

Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) University of Minnesota
Computer searchable information system available 24 hours-a-day with information on children, youth, family, fatherhood, and work/family issues. Site includes links to other Work and Family or Work-Life information Internet sites.

Families and Work Institute (F.W.I.)
The Families and Work Institute is a non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family life. F.W.I. is committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.

Family Caregiver Alliance
An information resource on long-term care.

Greater Good Science Center
The nonprofit GGSC is unique in its commitment to both science and practice: Not only do they sponsor groundbreaking scientific research into social and emotional well‐being, they help people apply this research to their personal and professional lives. Their goal is not only to help individual employees identify effective, research-based strategies for managing their stress and deriving more meaning from their work. It is also to help leaders and entire organizations embed these strategies in their workplace culture, prioritizing positive relationships and a leadership style that embodies social and emotional intelligence.

National Partnership for Women and Families
The National Partnership for Women and Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.

New Ways to Work
New Ways to Work is a consulting, technical assistance, and training organization that helps communities build comprehensive local youth-serving systems, develop new programs and partnerships, and improve practice in the organizations that serve young people.

Society for Human Resource Management / SHRM
National professional association focused on professional development in human resources field and including areas of interest related to work and family. SHRM publishes a monthly titled HRMagazine which can be accessed via SHRM’s Internet site.

U.S. Department of Education
Information of the Employers, Families and Education Initiative which promotes family involvement in learning and schools.

WFD (Formerly Work/Family Directions)
WFD offers innovative solutions, thought-leadership, and research that keep companies on the cutting edge of the key issues that affect business results namely, what employers can do to facilitate maximum commitment of their people to business success.

Work Family Connection, Inc.
Consulting firm and publisher. Extensive on-line information, news summaries, trend reports, model companies, and searchable database (search function only available to subscribers).

WorldatWork
A nonprofit human resources association and compensation authority for professionals and organizations focused on the strategic elements of the employer-employee exchange as well as how external influences and an increasingly global business environment affect attraction, motivation, retention and engagement of employees.

AIESEC
AIESEC (pronounced eye-sec) is the world’s largest student-managed, non-profit educational organization.

Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the quality of leadership through informed dialogue.

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is an international corporate membership organization. The Center partners with businesses worldwide to strengthen their community relationships and investments to achieve healthy, sustainable communities in which to live, work and do business. CCCR does this through research, policy and education that builds knowledge of the interdependence of community vitality and business success.

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
BSR is a membership organization for companies of all sizes and sectors. BSR’s mission is to help its member companies achieve long-term commercial success by implementing policies and practices that honor high ethical standards and meet their responsibilities to all who are impacted by their decisions.

Business in the Community
Business in the Community is the leading authority on corporate community involvement in the UK.  Business in the Community’s mission is to inspire business to increase the quality and extent of their contribution to social and economic regeneration by making corporate social responsibility an essential part of business excellence.

Canadian Centre for Business in the Community (CCBC)
The CCBC provides the plans, the tools and the expertise needed by Canadian companies to develop corporate citizenship programs that balance business objectives and the needs of their key stakeholders.

Caux Round Table (CRT)
Senior business leaders from Europe, Japan, and North America who are committed to the promotion of principled business leadership.

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
CERES is a non-profit coalition of investors, public pension funds, foundations, labor unions, and environmental, religious and public interest groups, working in partnership with companies toward the common goal of corporate environmental responsibility worldwide.

Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council for Ethics in Economics is an association of leaders in business, higher education, religion and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life.

Defense Industry Initiative (DII) on Business Ethics and Conduct
DII is a consortium of U.S. defense industry contractors which subscribes to a set of principles for achieving high standards of business ethics and conduct.

DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
The mission of the Institute is to foster ethical behavior by providing for and participating in ethics-related education, offering resources to stakeholders (e.g. conferences, lecture series, on-site training, discussion and written materials), and supporting and disseminating cutting-edge scholarship of ethical relevance.

Ethics Resource Center
The Ethics Resource Center may be unique in the world in its mandate to create global ethics institutions and coalitions.  There work in this area calls them to lead in the planning, development and building of ethical institutions domestically and internationally and to forge a global network of such institutions.

Illinois Institute of Technology
The Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession (CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to the professions. In June 1996, the Center received a grant from National Science Foundation to put their collection of over 850 codes of ethics on the World-Wide Web.

Institute For Global Ethics
The Institute for Global Ethics is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context. As an international, membership-based think tank, the Center focuses on ethical activities in education, the corporate sector, and public policy.

International Business Ethics Institute
Its mission is to foster global business practices which promote equitable economic development, resource sustainability and democratic forms of government.

International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE)
The aim of the Society is to facilitate the dissemination of information and to foster interaction among businesses, academics, professional societies, and others interested in the ethical dimensions of business and economics on the international level.

Josephson Institute
Advocates principled reasoning and ethical decision making through programs and workshops for leaders including legislators and mayors, high-ranking public executives, congressional staff, editors and reporters, senior corporate and nonprofit executives, judges and lawyers, and military and police officers. The http://www.charactercounts.org CHARACTER COUNTS! youth education initiative is a project of the Institute.

Net Impact
Net Impact is a global community of students and professionals who want to become the most effective change agents they can be. Over 100,000 strong, their emerging leaders take on social challenges, protect the environment, invent new products and orient business toward the greater good.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD groups member countries in an organisation that provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. The http://www.oecd.org/dac/index.htmOECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is the principal body through which the Organisation deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries. The DAC is one of the key forums in which the major bilateral donors work together to increase the effectiveness of their common effort to support sustainable development.

Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
The mission of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University is to heighten ethical awareness and improve ethical decision-making on campus and in the community at large.

Social Investing Forum
The Social Investment Forum site offers comprehensive information, contacts resources on socially responsible investing.

Social Investment Forum (UKSIF)
The UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF) promotes and encourages socially responsible investment (SRI) in the UK. The site includes information both about UKSIF and about SRI in general, together with event reports, comments on proposed legislation and a newsletter. There is a detailed membership directory which includes UK investment managers, financial advisers, research organisations and NGOs.

SustainAbility
Founded in 1987, SustainAbility was established to help create a more sustainable world by encouraging the evolution and widespread adoption of thinking and practices which are socially responsible, environmentally sound, and economically viable.

The Conference Board
The Conference Board is the premier business membership and research network worldwide, linking executives from different companies, industries and countries.

The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum
An international not for profit organization founded, in 1990, in response to concerns about the impact of the increasing globalization of business and challenges of sustainability and social cohesion.

The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics is a unique resource for businesses and individuals seeking to enhance ethical performance and meet the difficult challenges of today’s business world.  Their mission is to raise awareness and understanding of the ethical dimension of business and professional life, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, and to stimulate a productive community dialogue about issues and responsibilities.

Transparency International
Acts to counter corruption, both in international business transactions and at national levels.

United States Office of Government Ethics
The Office of Government Ethics (OGE), a small agency within the executive branch, was established by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The Office of Government Ethics exercises leadership in the executive branch to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of Government employees, and to resolve those conflicts of interest that do occur.

University of British Columbia’s Centre for Applied Ethics
The mission of the Centre is to bring moral philosophy into the public domain by advancing research in applied ethics, supporting courses with a significant ethical component and acting as a community resource.

University of St. Thomas Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics
The Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics works with other entities on campus to ensure that ethics education remains a priority through business ethics education in both the undergraduate and MBA programs, faculty development, and the promotion of responsible corporate citizenship through professional development opportunities and other events.

West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum
The Forum advocates the belief that environmental leadership could, and should come from within the business community; not from without. Members investigate and develop policies, programs and management systems that promote environmentally and economically sustainable commerce. This site features an on-line Sustainability Self-Assessment Guide to be used by companies interested in the examination of environmental sustainability.

Wharton Ethics Program
The Wharton School supports its committment to the discussion of the ethical issues that confront business through its courses, faculty, research, and publications.

World Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of international companies united by a shared commitment to the environment and to the principles of economic growth and sustainable development.

World Economic Forum
Through global, personalized, knowledge-generating and highest-level interaction, the World Economic Forum provides its Members and Constituents with opportunities to share experiences and insights and to assess new opportunities. It also creates a privileged, informal, framework for intensive business networking and for an interface between business leaders, political leaders and world class experts.

Business Ethics Resources on WWW
Links to sites in the areas of codes of ethics, organizations, publications, specific topics, and papers.

Discussions of Ethics on the Net
List of Internet discussion groups with links and subscription addresses.

Ethics Resources on the Net
Links to sites in areas of business ethics such as codes of conduct, reference sources, organizations, issues, corporations, consultants, and commentaries. Also includes links to other types of ethics sites (human rights, environment, etc.).