Ethical Leadership - Leadership Training from MindTools. Doing the Right Thing Know in advance what you'd do. © iStockphoto We've seen some high profile ethical failures in the press in recent years.
It will be hard to forget the devastation caused by accounting fraud at the investment company run by Bernard Madoff, or the earlier frauds at Enron and Worldcom. People have also raised ethical questions over the welfare of some organizations' staff and suppliers. Imperial Chemical Industries. History[edit] Development of the business[edit] The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.[5] It established its head office at Millbank in London in 1928.[5] Competing with DuPont and IG Farben, the new company produced chemicals, explosives, fertilisers, insecticides, dyestuffs, non-ferrous metals, and paints.[5] In its first year turnover was £27 million.[5] In the 1920s and '30s the company played a key role in the development of new chemical products, including the dyestuff phthalocyanine (1929), the acrylic plastic Perspex (1932),[5] Dulux paints (1932, co-developed with DuPont),[5] polyethylene (1937)[5] and polyethylene terephthalate fibre known as Terylene (1941).[5] In 1940 ICI started British Nylon Spinners as a joint venture with Courtaulds.
ICI developed a fabric in the 1950s known as Crimplene. How to make things happen: leadership, motivation and change management - by Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker for Welsh Parliament - public sector. Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders.