Keynote address: Business Ethics and the Veil of Ignorance
IBE Chair Flora Page KC delivers the Keynote Address at the 2025 ICAEW Conference
04 November 2025
A little help
IBE’s Associate Director, Prof. Chris Cowton, reflects on the role of ethical decision-making models, the subject of our latest research report.
22 March 2023
FTSE 100 Ethical Decision-Making Models: good questions, good answers?
This report analyses the ethical decision-making models contained in the codes of ethics of the UK’s leading companies, the FTSE 100.
20 March 2023
Bullying: rules and values
Read the latest blog by Prof. Chris Cowton, IBE’s Associate Director.
17 November 2022
FTSE 100 Codes of Ethics: room for improvement
An assessment of the Codes of Ethics of the UK’s leading companies.
09 August 2021
Ethics challenges for new employees and those changing jobs
Read our latest guest blog by By Kirk O. Hanson, Coauthor of Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues And What To Do About It.
12 May 2021
Hugh Kay Lecture: Standards in Public Life - Are we in a Post-Nolan age?
View the recording of our webinar.
12 November 2020
Embedding Business Ethics: 2020 report on corporate ethics policies and programmes
This report is the ninth in the triennial series looking at corporate ethics policies and programmes. It is the IBE’s longest-running survey series, and continues to give valuable insights into how companies run their ethics programmes.
01 April 2020
Using Behavioural Ethics to improve your Ethics Programme
This IBE Research Report focuses on how people make decisions and what can influence them.
10 April 2018
Collaboration Between the Ethics Function and HR
When embedding ethical values into organisational culture, the roles of the company Ethics and HR functions can frequently overlap. It is important therefore that they work together effectively to ensure this happens.
30 April 2014
Globalising a Business Ethics Programme
This practical guide provides advice on assessing whether existing ethics programmes are effective and culturally appropriate and developing and disseminating organisation-wide values and standards to take account of the many cultures in which a business operates, including training which is as culturally relevant to employees worldwide.
01 May 2012
Ethics Ambassadors
This practical Guide explains the role of Ethics Ambassadors in contributing to the success of an ethics programme and helping to promote a consistent ethical business culture. Drawing on the experience of UK and international companies it highlights how the role of an ethics ambassador can help organisations understand what ethics ambassadors are and how they can be recruited and supported effectively. The guide includes a set of practical tools for training and evaluating the efficacy of ethics ambassadors.
10 October 2010
Surveying Staff on Ethical Matters
This practical guide draws on the experiences of UK and international companies to look at how organisations can use staff surveys to take their ethical temperature and assess the efficacy of their ethics programmes. It outlines the different methods for surveying staff on ethical matters and considers how to maximise the effectiveness of surveys. A list of questions that companies can use to ask their staff about ethical matters are provided, including the IBE’s 12 benchmark staff survey questions.
10 July 2008