In a competitive business environment, dishonesty can pay. Self-interested executives and managers have incentive to shade the truth for personal gain. response, community has considered how commit these higher ethical standard. The MBA Oath Dutch Bankers are examples of such commitment device. question we test herein is whether oath be used as an effective form ethics management future executi...

* Emeritus Professor, National University of Singapore Senior Professorial Fellow, National University of Singapore Consultant Paediatrician, National University Hospital Consultant Paediatrician, Paediatric Clinic, Thomson Medical Centre Consultant, Thomson Prenatal Centre † Delivered at the 9th ASEAN Paediatric Federation Conference, 9 July 1998. From the time of recorded history of medicine,...

Two freshmen an Honor Council member and a candidate for Student Government secretary -are among 28 students who will face judicial action as a result of having alcohol confiscated from their rooms during Spring Break. Reports were filed by residence life and housing staff members against 41 students found in possession of alcohol during health and safety inspections. Janna Laing, who was elect...

T he white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the ceremony is mainly based on the good will felt by participants and an assumed connection between the ceremony and encouraging humanistic values in medicine. Recent critiques of the ceremony faults its use of oaths, premature alignment of students and faculty, and the select...