The Importance of an Inclusive Workplace Today's guest blog is by Laura Clay. You can contact her at: lauraa.clayy@gmail.com. The tech sector is on a mission to become more diverse and inclusive, particularly with the growing presence of women in the industry. This encouraging progress has been promising over recent... Read more →

Are Your Work Responsibilities Balanced With Your Personal Life? A 'work life' balance refers to an employee's ability to maintain a healthy balance between their work roles, their personal responsibilities, and family life. Companies are increasingly recognizing the importance of helping their employees to achieve this balance as more staff... Read more →

Say What You Will Do, and Do What You Say I have blogged before about ethical leadership. One of my discussions looked at ethical leadership in business while the other addressed the importance of ethical leadership in making ethical decisions. It’s always a good idea to revisit the concept of... Read more →

THE IMPORTANCE OF WHISTLEBLOWING POLICIES In a recent study by Ethisphere it was stated that younger workers are more willing to report workplace misbehavior than workers from other generations, yet they are less likely to report it. The reason given is that they lack the confidence in their employer’s anti-retaliation... Read more →

Emphasizing Environmental Issues Appeals to Gen Z and Millennials Introduction From time to time, I post a guest blog when it contains important information. Today's blog is by Charlie Fletcher. You can contact her at: charliefletcher365@gmail.com. Charlie addresses environmental concerns that generally fall into the broader concept of sustainability. It... Read more →

How to Spot It and What to Do About It I recently read about the popularity of online searches about “gaslighting.” Merriam-Webster chose gaslighting as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word spiked by 1,740% in 2022, most likely driven by people who were questioning... Read more →

Fairness Dictates That Workers Should Be Paid More The size of executive compensation pay packages seems to be an issue at least once a year after information is provided on the average CEO compensation versus the average pay for a worker. It's not just a fairness issue. Every so often... Read more →

Holding CEOs Accountable for Fraudulent Activities I have previously blogged about the 324:1 ratio of pay packages, on average, for S&P 500 CEOs when compared to the average worker Pay. In this blog I look at claw backs, a provision that enables a company and/or the SEC to go after... Read more →

Book Review I want to share with my readers a review of my accounting ethics textbook that was just published in The CPA Journal. I am proud to say the review highly recommends the book. This is the sixth edition of my book that spans more than twenty years of... Read more →

Looking at Employer and Employee Responsibilities I must confess that when I read a poll taken by Gallup on “quiet quitting,” I did not know exactly what it meant at first. I thought it referred to the way employees leave their job—quietly and without fuss. Boy, was I way off... Read more →