Deborah Poff

• CM, PhD
• Professor at Carleton University

This article discusses issues of social and distributive justice in the context of global capitalism in the twenty-first century and the necessity of incorporating values-clarification and ethical leadership as part of the core curriculum for university graduates. Keywordsleadership-ethics-sustainability-capitalism-university education

This paper addresses a number of ethical issues that arise in the context of journal publishing. These include both issues for the researcher and issues for the editors and editorial board members of journals.

Persuaded by the observed positive link between the flow of appropriately skilled and trained female talent and female presence at the upper echelons of management (Plitch, Dow Jones Newswire February 9, 2005), this study has examined current trends on women’s uptake of graduate and executive education programs in the world’s top 100 business schoo...

In this empirical study, we present two new models that are corporate ethics based. The first model numerically quantifies the corporate value index (CV-Index) based on a set of predefined parameters and the second model estimates the market-to-book values of equity in relation to the CV-Index as well as other parameters. These models were applied...

This book engages the reader in a series of articles on various aspects of diversity and discrimination in business ethics, higher education, and society. Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become au courant phrases with corrective practices that attempt to rectify what Provis in chapter “Questions of Discrimination” calls “discrimination for th...

This chapter discusses the limitations of Habermas’ theory of communicative rationality and deliberative democracy in addressing issues of discrimination as well as addressing issues related to neoliberalism, irrational anti-intellectual mob behaviour and globalization. The focus of the discussion is on the inability of a reason-based theory as the...

This chapter provides an overview of the key issues involved in publication ethics, with a particular focus and emphasis on journal publishing. Publication ethics and its place on the continuum with research ethics/research integrity is explored. Particular examples of violations of publication ethics are identified and examined. As well, the vario...

This chapter outlines the issues presented in the chapters which follow in this anthology. Specifically, the chapter analyzes the complex and often incompatible values of the current day multiuniversity, particularly in western democratic nation states. This chapter identifies the incommensurable values of the traditional, vocational commitment to...

This chapter provides a brief further analysis of the state of universities and makes suggestions for future directions.KeywordsPoff – Equity valuesEqual opportunitySocial mobilityTeaching and research integrity

This article addresses the tensions between the sense of responsibility that university administrators feel to protect student privacy with the requirement to be accountable and transparent to the public. This discussion is placed in the context of the history and purpose of post-secondary education.KeywordsEducation and ethicsStudent privacy and e...

an anthology by leading scholars in the field of Universities and Corporate Governance

this is a presentation of the theory of the tragedy of the commons using a critique of Garret Hardin's lifeboat metaphor as exemplar

Publication ethics

an exposition and critical analysis of employment equity in Canada

the relationship between ethics and academic integrity

In this brief article, the author speculates on the possible negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on scholarship and scholarly output for academics who may already experience discrimination in the workplace.

This article provides an exposition analysis of many aspects of publication ethics, including those originating in research ethics

This article provides an overview of the history of business ethics including foundational ethical theories. The chapter addresses the growing field of business ethics research as well as the subject area of ethical issues in research conducted on topics related to business ethics.

Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of di...

Leadership

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss an interview with Dr Deborah Poff – world renowned Scholar, Ethics Scholar, Founder and Editor of major ethics journals, and a university leader – on ethical leadership and the role of scholars. Design/methodology/approach This is a personal interview with a world renowned ethics scholar on ethical l...

This is a fictional short story that was published in Scroll in Space, a peer-reviewed short story journal. I am currently putting together a collection of my short stories to be published as a book

This is a fictional, short story, published in a peer-reviewed journal, Scroll in Space. The article will be included in a collection of my short stories to be published in a book, forthcoming

This is a short story published in a peer-reviewed short story journal, Scroll in Space. I am currently putting together a book of my short stories, forthcoming.

This is a fictional short story. I am currently putting together a collection of my short stories, including 7 that were published in a peer-reviewed short story journal, Scroll in Space. I intend to publish the collection as a book.

This is a fictional short story. I am currently putting together a collection of my short stories, including 7 that were published in a peer-reviewed short story journal, Scroll in Space. I intend to publish the collection as a book.

Some might argue it is unnecessary to specify a particular nation-state when speaking about business ethics. While Canadian history makes the discussion of business ethics somewhat culture-specific, the Canadian future may include the erosion of such specificities through free-trade agreements, information highways, and a globalized economy that di...

This is a short story - a work of fiction that was published in a peer reviewed online journal. Search scroll in space for the full article.

The Journal of Business Ethics was founded by Alex C. Michalos and Deborah C. Poff and published its first issue in March 1982. It is the most frequently cited business ethics journal in the world. The Journal has always offered a multi-disciplinary and international public forum for the discussion of issues concerning the interaction of successful...

Although the primary aim of child protection services (CPS) is to ensure the well-being and safety of children, policy decision-makers and service providers are increasingly concerned about the potential harm children encounter when they witness the abuse of their caregivers. Researchers who have conducted reviews of child protection files in both...

This article concerns the importance of teaching moral reasoning and ethical leadership to all undergraduate students and in particular makes the case that students in business especially need familiarity with these capacities and theories given the complex world in which they will find themselves. The corollary to this analysis is the claim that c...

AN ORAL TRADITION AND STORY TELLING CULTURE are still central to aboriginal personal and community identity, and provide major means of remembering and conveying personal and community experience with university researchers. These stories describe stark accounts of betrayal and upset, as well as descriptions of positive experiences. They provide dr...

The editors of Business Ethics Quarterly, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society are interviewed about the roles that their journals play in developing the field of business ethics/business in society. and forwarding new ideas. Although all journals are subject to material that is submitted, the editors agreed that they can sometime...

This paper addresses a small but important subset of the challenges to ethical behaviour that face senior university administrators in their daily work, namely, errors in moral judgment which arise from over-identification and loyalty to the institution. The domain and precipitating factors are not unique to universities but may be more intensely e...

This article addresses the tensions between the sense of responsibility that university administrators feel to protect student privacy with the requirement to be accountable and transparent to the public. This discussion is placed in the context of the history and purpose of post-secondary education.

A measure of feminism is introduced, and a case is made for the acceptability of its levels of reliability, criterion-related, content, construct and discriminant-validity. Feminism is shown to be related to such features of the quality of life as happiness and being a good person. Survey results are reported from a sample of 431 members of the Can...

This paper focusses on the relationship among structural adjustment policies and practices, the business activities of transnational corporations and what Robert Reich has called the coming irrelevance of corporate nationality. The argument presented is that the force of these combined factors makes environmental sustainability impossible.

This paper discusses two interrelated problems. First, it discusses the impact the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had on women's social and economic status. Second, it discusses the role feminists can play in changing the face of the Canadian justice system. With regard to the first of these issues, it is observed that considerable evi...

A measure of feminism is introduced, and a case is made for the acceptability of its levels of reliability, criterion-related, content, construct and discriminant-validity. Feminism is shown to be related to such features of the quality of life as happiness and being a good person. Survey results are reported from a sample of 431 members of the Can...