Ethics Readings and Resources

We do not want more trust argues Professor Onora O'Neill, a distinguished academic philosopher and politician who is particularly known for her work on trust. She explains the limitations of the standard views of trust and urges us to focus on being trustworthy and giving others adequate, useful and simple evidence of our trustworthiness.

A recent systematic review of postgraduate medical ethics training programs identified a number of enabling factors for their success. The enablers, summarised in the table provided in the linked article.

Pre-mortem decision making

Finding New Year’s resolutions isn’t always easy. To help you out, we’ve gotten ideas from some of the greatest thinkers of all time.

A short filming showcasing some of the work done in human rights education by Victoria Police. 

Where Do Universal Rights Begin?

People join public service organisations with the best of intentions, so why do they sometimes do bad things?

Sam Kolling argues that we have been wrong about one of our most basic assumptions about our personalities and character. Sam claims that we do not have a solid character that persists across time and situations. Instead, our personalities and moral behavior can be affected by something as simple as finding a dime in a phone booth, or standing close to a soap dispenser. Sam Kolling grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2016 earning a degree in Philosophy and commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry.

Talking ethics does not come naturally in our organisational life. Yet, safe, interesting, and normal ethics conversations when things are fine, and not in response to a scandal, help us develop ethical skill to deal with the ethical questions we all face.

The annual independence exam at the centre of the long-running and widespread cheating at KPMG operated as an open-book test where searching the internet for answers was allowed.