Websites
for the College of Arts & Sciences, University of
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Arts & Sciences Career Development Program:
http://www.sc.edu/career/cascdp
PHILOSOPHY/RELIGIOUS STUDIES CAREERS
NON-ACADEMIC CAREERS:
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/nonaintro.html
(be sure to click on the “Next Page” link at the bottom of each page)
EDUCATION:
(Note: Postings on the following sites are mostly
academic in nature, but may contain the occasional posting outside of higher
education.)
*
USC - Websites for the College of Education
http://www.sc.edu/career/?id=education
From another section of
the University of South Carolina Career Center webpage. This page will
link you to numerous sites pertaining to education-related opportunities.
* Jobs in Philosophy
http://www.sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de/phil/ag/jobs/
Worldwide job listings (mostly in academia), ordered by the date of posting
with the most recent postings first. Specify which language you wish to
read the site in and in which country you wish to work.
* Society for Women
in Philosophy
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/
Click on “job announcements” for open positions, mainly in academia.
* Baptist
Association of Philosophy Teachers
http://www3.baylor.edu/BAPT/home.htm
This site exists to support the teaching of philosophy
on Baptist campuses. Under BAPT marketplace" you may search available
listings. Members may also add a resume/cv to
the "BAPT members available for placement" section.
* The American
Catholic Philosophical Association
http://www.acpa-main.org/employment.html
Job listings, mainly in academia and in Catholic/Jesuit institutions.
* Association for
Practical and Professional Ethics
http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/
Click on “job listings” for open positions, mainly in academia - but not
exclusively.
Ethics Officers
Association
http://www.theecoa.org/
Job postings are accessible by
members only. However, use the membership directory listing to get an
idea of the kinds of organizations ethics officers work for, and see the “about
the EOA” section for information on what ethics officers do. You will
also find related external links under the “resources” section.
Ethicsweb.ca
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/
Although this page is based out of
* Bioethics.net: The
American Journal of Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.net/
Interested in moral issues in the fields of medical treatment and research,
ethical issues in the life sciences and the distribution of scarce medical
resources? Considering working in medicine, nursing, law, sociology,
philosophy, or theology? Click on the site map and then careers to search
job postings in related areas.
* ASBH: American
Society for Bioethics and Humanities
http://www.asbh.org/news/jobs.htm
Jobs in academia as well as non-profits and the healthcare industry.
* American
Philosophical Association
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/sitemap.html
Jobs listings on this site are for members only, however, there is some very
good information on the profession under the "news and information"
section. There is also a nice career brochure under "APA
committees" under " career
opportunities."
* Guide to
Philosophy on the Internet
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm#jobs
Contains a search engine for philosophy, as well as comprehensive links to
information on artificial intelligence, ethics, human rights resources,
newsletters, email job lists, networking discussion groups, and wide variety of
philosophy-related jobs.
* Philosophy Around the Web
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html
Links to related resources, journals, conferences, educational institutions,
job search sites and more. Scroll down for a neat section on "Why study
philosophy?"
* Epistemelinks.com:
Philosophy Resources on Internet
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainJob.htm
Provides links to other sites that post jobs in philosophy.
GOVERNMENT (Federal, State & Local)
* USC - Websites for
the College of Liberal Arts (Political Science)
http://www.sc.edu/career/?id=la/gint#GOVT
From another section of the University of South Carolina Career Center
webpage. This page will link you to numerous sites pertaining to federal,
state & local government opportunities. Will allow you to
research employers as well as search for jobs.
* USC -
http://www.sc.edu/career/?id=webresources/nonprofit
From another section of the University of South Carolina Career Center
webpage. This page
will link you to employer information and job listings for both
* Monster.com:
Volunteer and Nonprofit Jobs
http://content.monster.com/jobinfo/resources/volunteer.html
Comprehensive
listings with links to non-profit and volunteer organization sites. Unique
career management links are provided to help with interviewing, resume writing,
and networking. Contains recruiter lists and chat options.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / THINK TANKS
* USC - Websites for
the College of Liberal Arts (Political Science)
http://www.sc.edu/career/?id=la/gint#GOVTPUBAD
From another section of the University of South Carolina Career Center
webpage. This page will link you to numerous sites pertaining to work
opportunities in public administration or think tanks.
USC - Department of Philosophy
http://www.cas.sc.edu/phil/
The Department of Philosophy at the
http://www.business-ethics.com/current_issue/summer_2005_birth.html
|
Current
Issue: Summer 2005 |
Birth of
the Ethics Industry
By James C.
Hyatt
A lot of
companies are singing the compliance blues these days, as they struggle to cope
with the complexities of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, passed in 2002 in the wake
of financial scandals. Complaints about the cost and time involved are common,
but there’s another effect of Sarbanes-Oxley less remarked upon. Corporations
are rushing to learn ethics virtually overnight, and as they do so, a vast new
industry of consultants and suppliers has emerged. The ethics industry has been
born.
Consider a few examples of
recent mushrooming attention to ethics. At Goldman Sachs, CEO Hank
Paulson will moderate 20 forums this year on ethics, for the bank’s entire
staff of managing directors. Citigroup is adding annual ethics training
for all 300,000 employees, and The New York Times Co. is doing likewise.
Where do such firms turn
for help? The New York Times signed a multi-year agreement with LRN, an
11-year-old Los Angeles-based firm that helped advise the U.S. Sentencing
Commission on effective compliance programs. LRN will provide a legal and
ethics education program, including a customized course on the company’s
business ethics policy. LRN CEO Dov Seidman says his business has at least doubled in the last
two years. Growth is also rapid at EthicsPoint,
a five-year-old
The faces behind these
ethics services include people like Kevin Kelton, 48,
who spent 24 years writing TV scripts for Saturday Night Live and Night
Court, and now is a “content author manager” for LRN. Kelton
directs six in-house writers to prepare lessons on a variety of ethical and
legal issues for LRN, which offers a web-based education platform with more
than 200 modules.
Kelton’s new job isn’t that different from
his old one, he insists. The challenge is to engage audiences, “not so much as
entertainment as to keep the user emotionally involved.” Thus, the ethics
writers might prepare a script on how an executive ran afoul of conflict-
of-interest rules, illustrating how such behavior didn’t square with ethics
rules.
Julie, 24, a recent college
graduate, works in a West Coast call center for EthicsPoint,
fielding hotline inquiries over the phone and the web, on issues ranging from
suspected fraud to sexual harassment. (Her last name remains confidential due
to the nature of her job.) “My boss describes it more as 911 dispatch,”
Julie said. Most calls aren’t ethics related, and only 9 to 10 percent are
SOX-related. More than half involve human resource issues such as complaints
about harassment or workplace conditions.
Callers, she finds, are
often upset or angry, not able to tell the full story. It may take her two
hours to elicit enough information to forward to a client (while protecting the
caller’s identity). The hardest part of her job: “Not giving advice.”
Recruiting for the ethics
army is vigorous. Craigslist — the free
community search engine – recently listed 64 jobs in San Francisco and 50 in
Boston that included the word “Sarbanes.” Monster.com – a broader job
search engine — tallies more than 1,000 and, on a recent check, 158 posted in
“the last 24 hours.”
Not all new “Sarbanes” jobs
are directly tied to ethics, since the legislation focuses on accounting
control systems, creating a boom in accounting positions. The Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board, created by SOX, has a $136 million budget and
should have 450 employees by the end of this year.
At major firms, there has
been a boom in new ethics officer positions, with such positions being filled
recently at the New York Stock Exchange, Marsh & McLennan, Nortel
Networks, and Computer Associates International, among many others.
Kerry D. Moynihan, a
managing partner at recruiting firm Christian & Timbers, reports
“more and more work” helping companies find executives to handle compliance
issues, with job titles ranging from chief compliance officer or general
counsel to vice president of human relations. At financial companies, in
particular, such officials are called upon to be “much more accountable to
boards and to federal regulators.” And more companies “are creating offices
around things like corporate social responsibility officer.”
There was a time, he says,
when compliance duties landed in the lap of “the green eyeshade people you
didn’t want as front men. Now they are much more front
of the house, three doors down from the chief executive.” Wall Street
compliance officers that used to make $350,000 to $450,000 a year now can
command $750,000 or a million dollars in salary, he reports. And he expects
demand to continue. He predicts hedge funds, for instance, will be subject to
SEC regulations by 2006. And mutual funds will need help
“coming up to speed.”
Ethics officers often wear
more than one hat. At Lubrizol Corp., in Wyckliffe,
Oh., Mark Meister has been vice president for human
relations as well as chief ethics officer since 1994. He finds the duties have
expanded substantially over the years. Currently, two people work with him on
ethics part-time, helping with tasks like posting ethics guidelines in seven
languages, and overseeing 27 regional ethics leaders around the world whom
employees can contact with questions. The company currently is rolling out its
ethics program to 3,000 new employees who’ve joined Lubrizol, a specialty
chemicals company, through an acquisition.
To convince employees it’s
serious about ethics, Lubrizol frequently notes the experience of CEO James Hambrick. When he oversaw business in the former
One Sarbanes-related script
Reaching out beyond ethics,
Pinkerton recently launched a service called “Stakeholder,” providing a way for
stakeholders like shareholders, customers, or contractors to voice concerns.
Software companies have
found a bonanza in Sarbanes-Oxley. “Last year (2004), we more than tripled our
revenue,” declares Ed Thomas, product marketing manager for OpenPages,
The company’s SOX Express
software helps companies automate the compliance process of documenting
internal financial controls, a SOX requirement. Next on the horizon: expanding
to general risk management issues such as manufacturing and human resources.
“Sarbanes is risk management for your financial department,” he says.
EMC Corp., the $8 billion-revenue information
storage company in
At Iron Mountain Inc.,
the big
The price of all this new
activity is enormous. AMR Research estimates that organizations this
year will spend $6.1 billion on Sarbanes-Oxley; others estimate twice that
amount. Large companies dealing with one of the big four accounting firms have
seen their annual fees double. Technology research firm Aberdeen Group
of
At its best, though, the
ethics evolution underway is about more than complying with expensive and
detailed rules. It’s about shifting how firms are managed, to incorporate an
ethics focus. Dov Seidman, LRN’s founder and CEO, likes to say he was in the ethics
business “BE—Before Enron.” He began LRN 10 years ago doing legal research for
Fortune 500 companies, “putting out fires through expert analysis.” But he soon
developed a notion of “ethical capitalism as a long-term driver of business
success,” and launched training programs to establish “do
it right cultures.” LRN has worked with companies like Johnson & Johnson,
Pfizer, and DuPont for years. “Ethics isn’t about games,” Seidman says. “Integrity is either there or it’s not.”
David Gebler, president of Working Values Ltd.,
a decade-old Boston-based business ethics consulting firm, says in the new
climate, “it’s often hard for organizations to make the leap to an ethical
culture because they are unsure of where to start.”
He adds: “It is not enough
to merely ask whether controls are in place or if everyone has attended a class
or signed a code. The organization has to understand what the drivers of
behavior are,” and how those align with integrity goals.
Brian Gontarski,
director of business development at Working Values, says an organization’s code
of conduct, its values, and its business goals may be created by separate
units. “We strive to find the point where they all intersect,” so ethics is
seen “as a way of doing business, not just following the company line.”
Over time, as boards get
more involved, the new focus on ethical behavior will only expand, says Mary
Ann Jorgenson, a partner in Cleveland-based Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
LLP. “What’s changed dramatically is that CEOs are moving away from the
inclination to control board discussions,” becoming willing to hear other
points of view, she says. Her job as an advisor is to “make people comfortable
with the exercise of independent judgment and to understand what constructive
skepticism is.”
It may all be working.
There are indications that the focus on ethics is bearing fruit.
The National Benchmark
Study by the University of Michigan and research firm Employee
Motivation & Performance Assessment looks at a variety of working
condition measures, and it found that among 1,000 major companies, the only
statistically significant change in 2004 was a jump in companies’ scores for
“ethics and fairness.”
Surveying financial
executives, Oversight Systems Inc.,
There are always critics,
of course, and they’re making a buck as well. CafePress,
selling customized merchandise online, is offering mugs priced at $15.99 that
are emblazoned with the words, “Sox Stinks!”
---James C.
Hyatt (jchyatt@yahoo.com), a
ETHICS IN MEDICINE
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/ethics.html
Ethics Committees and
Ethics Consultation
* What does an ethics committee do?
* Who becomes a member of an ethics
committee?
* What is the difference between an ethics
committee and an ethics consultant?
* Under what circumstances should I use an
ethics committee?
* What will the ethics consultant do if I
page her or him?
* How do I contact the ethics committee or
request an ethics consultation?
Most hospitals are now
required to have an ethics committee, and many in the
What does an ethics
committee do?
Ethics committees involve
groups of individuals from diverse backgrounds who support health care institutions
with three major functions: providing ethics consultation, developing and/or
revising select policies pertaining to clinical ethics (e.g., advance
directives, withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments, informed
consent, organ procurement), and facilitating education about topical issues in
clinical ethics.
The underlying goals of
ethics committees are:
* to promote the
rights of patients;
* to promote
shared decision making between patients (or their surrogates if decisionally incapacitated) and their clinicians;
* to promote fair
policies and procedures that maximize the likelihood of achieving good,
patient-centered outcomes; and
* to enhance the
ethical tenor of health care professionals and health care institutions.
Ethics committees or select
members often help resolve ethical conflicts and answer ethical questions
through the provision of consultations.
Who becomes a member of an
ethics committee?
Ethics committee members
usually represent major clinical services and other stakeholders in health care
delivery. Thus, it is not uncommon for committee members to include clinicians
(physicians and nurses) from medicine, surgery, and psychiatry, a social
worker, a chaplain, and a community representative. Oftentimes, these
committees also have a quality improvement manager, an individual responsible
for the education program at the facility, a lawyer, and at least one
individual with advanced training in ethics. This latter representative can
come from a number of disciplines, including philosophy, law, medicine,
theology, and anthropology. All members of the ethics committee take
responsibility for learning techniques of ethical analysis and the arguments
surrounding most of the ethically charged issues in clinical practice.
Some ethics committees
allow guests. These can include health sciences students, philosophy graduate
students, physician trainees, facilitators, and patient representatives. Guests
need to maintain the confidentiality of the information discussed at the
meetings, often signing oaths to that effect.
What is the difference
between an ethics committee and an ethics consultant?
An ethics consultant is an
expert in clinical ethics who either provides ethics consultations or serves as
an educator to the committee. Sometimes in lieu of an ethics consultant, the
ethics committee will develop subcommittees to handle these functions. The
decision to have an ethics consultant versus subcommittees rests with the
available resources and the expertise of the committee members.
In general, the strengths
of having an ethics consultant is that she is a recognized expert, and the
logistics of having someone perform a consultation is straight forward. The
weaknesses are that clinicians can rely on this outside person for the answers
to their questions and not develop their own expertise, and only one
voice/perspective gets expressed. The major strength of having subcommittees
(sometimes having 2-3 individuals per month) perform consultations is that this
structure incorporates a diversity of views when considering a response to a
consultative request. The major weakness is the difficulty in organizing having
more than one person respond to a consult. Regardless of the ethics consultant
versus subcommittee structure, it is advisable to review consults at the next
available ethics committee meeting.
Under what circumstances
should I use an ethics committee?
You should consider asking
for a consult when two conditions are met:
1. you perceive
that there is an ethical problem in the care of patients, and
2. resolution does
not occur after bringing this to the attention of the attending physician.
Most "ethical
problems" turn out to be problems due to lack of communication. However,
sometimes a true ethical dilemma occurs, frequently because there is a conflict
between principles (autonomy, beneficence, justice) or
between principles and outcomes.
Check with your hospital to
see if there are any constraints on who can request an ethics consult. This
differs across the medical centers. Some require that physicians initiate the
consult, while others permit consults from anyone, including family members.
What will the ethics
consultant do if I page her or him?
The consultant usually will
ask you to specify the nature of the perceived ethical problem. He will meet
with you and the other people involved in the situation. He will review the
medical records. Oftentimes, the consultant will arrange an interdisciplinary
meeting to review the specifics of the case and to facilitate communication
across disciplines or between clinicians and the patient (and/or the family).
The consultant will write a note and attempt to answer the proposed
question(s). In the
How do I contact the ethics
committee or request an ethics consultation?
Check with your hospital to
identify the pager number to reach the ethics consultant. There should be an
individual at each hospital who carries a pager for
responding to ethics consultations.
Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Medical History and Ethics, and Department of Health Services University
of Washington and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System