What gets in the way of ethics?


Trust thought for today - is a question to any lovely followers passing by!

I am pondering what are the biggest barriers to operationalising ethics/responsibility/sustainability in organisations (of any type).

Is it lack of, or skewed, external incentives? Lack of management support or interest? Budget? Time? Skills or knowledge of how to operationalise? Internal processes? Time or cooperation of colleagues? Anything else or all of the above and more!?

What do you need to help you? Peers to discuss ideas with? Better models, frameworks or ideas of what works to help you? A new CEO!? More budget? A different, more interested set of colleagues!? Some more kick ass external pressure?

Love to know for some writing I am doing on what gets in the way and what help is needed - Any thoughts below or by DM if it's tricky to say!

Any research on that available from your own work? Guendalina Dondé, Matt Beard, Roger Miles, Ruth Steinholtz, Christian Hunt, Darrin Charlesworth, Jane Fiona Cumming, Garry Honey, Simon Allison (he/him), Mike Barry, Charlotte Wolff-Bye, Sam Brown, Philipp Kristian ♾, Uthman Ali, Mark Miller, Alan Knight, Laurent Bontoux, Laura Smillie, Mario Scharfbillig

From Sam Brown: These are all really great questions Hilary Sutcliffe, can't wait to see the responses you get! I did some research on this with the Open Data Institute looking at the impact of data ethics tools and what was needed next: https://theodi.org/article/the-next-generation-of-data-ethics-tools/?sd#tools

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