Trade voice: CILA'S Malcolm Hyde on business ethics

Business ethics has become increasingly important in recent years for many reasons, including increased stakeholder scrutiny.  This is not surprising in the light of financial institutions’ scandals, the MPs’ expenses scandal and perhaps the influence of social media opening up companies and institutions to the increased immediacy of public judgement. Malcolm Hyde, executive director of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters discusses.

Despite the greater attention to ethical standards or perhaps because of the increased attention there have been evidence of behaviours that are clearly in breach of the standards that the public