Our Research Services
Discovery Research
Our researchers seek to extend current theories around leadership and ethics by exploring fundamental questions in these areas, such as “What is principle-based leadership?” and “How does principle-based leadership influence organizations and their people?” Answers to these questions become guides to organizations and present the frameworks for practical solutions.
Why Use Our Discovery Research
- Recognize major leadership and ethics gaps in your organization
- Understand the implications of your leadership and ethics challenges
- Move forward with confidence by incorporating our data-driven insights into your leadership and ethics strategies
Applied Research
Our research team builds on its discovery research to test specific practices for building strong leadership and ethics organizational foundations. Further, our team works directly with organizations to identify and test tailored solutions addressing your unique challenges.
Why Use Our Applied Research
- Design practical, data-driven solutions to your leadership and ethics challenges
- Understand the parameters of your organization’s challenges to make changes that will drive positive change
- Develop new products and services that improve leadership and ethics in the workplace
Teaching Research
Our experienced researchers relate pedagogical theory to identify and test models for preparing K-12, secondary, and post-secondary students to be principle-based, ethical leaders. We also work directly with organizations to apply these solutions to unique organizational environments by way of training.
Why Use Our Teaching Research
- Gain access to evidence-based, current teaching and training strategies
- Identify and address weak spots in your training approaches
- Receive hands-on support for implementing leadership and ethics training programs
Media Mentions and Appearances
Published Papers by Dr. Thiel
- Stripped of Agency: The Paradoxical Effect of Employee Monitoring on Deviance
- Desirable or deceitful? How social exchange dynamics shape responses to pro-coworker unethical behavior
- Rationalize or reappraise? How envy and cognitive reappraisal shape unethical contagion
Business Ethics Resources
Videos
BBB Torch Awards Snippets on Ethics
- Video on Importance of Trust and How to Become Trustworthy
- Why Everyone Needs a Personal Code of Ethics
- Transparency During COVID at Columbine Health Systems
- Otter Products and the Importance of Its Values
- Maintaining Values in a Family Business during a Generational Change
Cowboy Conversations
- Academic Dishonesty
- Obligation vs. Opportunity
- What’s Your Brand? TEDx Talk
- Interview with Dave Hoerman, former Chief Wisdom Officer for DaVita
- Interview with Jesse Jorgensen, Director of Financial Planning for Northwestern Mutual
- Varsity Blues College Admissions Cheating Scandal
- Beyond the Social Dilemma, a Discussion of Issues Brought to Light by the Social Dilemma
Your Character Counts Series
- Episode #1 - How Do You Treat the Powerless?
- Episode #2 - Integrity: The Ultimate Business Advantage
- Episode #3 - Make Sure You Take These with You
- Episode #4 - Falling Short of Who You Want to Be?
- Episode #5 - Definition of Integrity
- Episode #6 - Admitting Our Mistakes
- Episode #7 - Leaving the Right Way
- Episode #8 - What's the Point
- Episode #9 - Who Inspires You?
- Epsiode #10 - Attacking a Weakness
- Episode #11 - Why is Leadership So Important?
- Episode #12 - The Way We Live Our Lives is Our Message to the World
Articles
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/peps.12387
- 9 Must-Haves for Successful Business Ethics Online Training
- Building An Ethics-First Employee Culture Is Crucial For All Leaders
- Business Ethics And Integrity: It Starts With The Tone At The Top
- Desirable or deceitful? How social exchange dynamics shape responses to pro-coworker unethical behavior
- Fostering an Ethical Culture on Your Sales Team
- How to Cultivate a Whistleblowing Culture
- How to Make Ethics Training Stick
- Improving Ethical Culture by Measuring Stakeholder Trust
- Navigating through ethical dilemmas is toughest assignment for a leader
- Old-school business ethics are still cool
- Opinion: Forget the fiduciary standard — financial advisers need a code of ethics
- Rationalize or reappraise? How envy and cognitive reappraisal shape unethical contagion
- Rethinking Ethics Training in Silicon Valley
- Serious About Fighting Corruption? How To Encourage Whistleblowing In Your Business
- Small Businesses: Why and How to Set-up or Enhance Your Ethics and Compliance Program
- Stripped of Agency: The Paradoxical Effect of Employee Monitoring on Deviance
- The False Choice Between Business and Ethics
- Three Markers Of An Ethically Sound Board
- When ethics take a back seat to corporate culture, a crisis is too often in the making
- Why every company needs a whistle-blower policy
- Why it now pays for businesses to put ethics before economics
Teaching
- A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making (Center for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia)
- ClassHook Educational Video Clips
- Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Bank
- Do Ethics Have a Place in Business Schools?
- Ethics Education in Business Schools (Report of the Ethics Education Task Force to AACSB International’s Board of Directors)
- Ethics Unwrapped (McCombs School of Business)
- Journal of Business Ethics Education
- Student Center for the Public Trust Ethical Leadership Certification
- Thinking Ethically (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics)
- Video Case Studies (Pace University)
- Wall Street Journal Weekly Educators Review
Magazines/Newspapers/Blogs
