It's not easy to make ethics training enjoyable, so it's good to see how other people have tried. According to an
article in Human
Resource Executive, Cisco Systems came up with a parody of
American Idol, with parody songs about ethics situations and three
judges critically discussing each song/...
One argument rarely made for effective government ethics programs is
that they will prevent government officials from being prosecuted for
"honest services fraud."
Ethics training is a problem at the local level. It's expensive, and
there aren't many experienced local government ethics trainers around.
Online ethics training has recently become the answer, but even this is
difficult to get people to do. As I wrote a couple of years ago in a blog entry and a comment to
the City Ethics Model Code, many officials...