Ethics Training

December 11, 2010

National Panel on Ethics Training

At the annual Council on Governmental Ethics conference in Washington D.C. From left: Kurt Nemes, World Bank Ethics Office Carla Miller, City Ethics Matt Cross, Office of Governmental Ethics Each presented as a part of an ethics training seminar in Washington DC, Dec. 2010
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Resources & Learning April 20, 2010

Online Course in Planning and Land Use Ethics

Patricia Salkin, director of the Government Law Center at the Albany Law School and author of the Law of the Land blog, which I often refer to, is teaching an online ethics in planning and land use regulation course for Rutgers University's Bloustein Online Continuing Education program. The course …
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Resources & Learning May 30, 2009

Moral Imagination

Due to President Obama, the word "empathy" is getting tossed around a lot lately. What interests me is that his definition of the word "empathy" is central to what ethicists call "moral imagination." And moral imagination is central to government ethics. Here's Pres. Obama's definition of "empathy"…
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May 16, 2009

Ethics Idol

It's not easy to make ethics training enjoyable, so it's good to see how other people have tried. According to an article in Human Resource Executive, Cisco Systems came up with a parody of American Idol, with parody songs about ethics situations and three judges critically discussing each song/sit…
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