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Ethics Training

Robert Wechsler
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/...
Robert Wechsler
How often should ethics commissions meet?

The usual answer to that question is, As often as they need to. But how often is that?

Robert Wechsler
One argument rarely made for effective government ethics programs is that they will prevent government officials from being prosecuted for "honest services fraud."

Robert Wechsler
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...

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