Corruption and Ethics: Impact Alabama
Today we conclude our series, “Corruption in Alabama: What’s the Deal”, with a look at what it means to be ethical. As director of The Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at the University of Alabama, Stephen Black occasionally gets calls from companies asking if he’d come give a lecture on ethics. He says he has to explain to them that when he says “ethics” he usually means something different than what they’re thinking.
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