Whether out in the field delivering services or occupying the manager’s chair, all employees have a stake in reporting incidents of suspected or actual wrongdoing.

ICMA members are invited to provide feedback on Tenet 4 of the ICMA Code of Ethics.

Members are encouraged to review the proposed tenet and guidelines and provide feedback by November 30.

When either party fails to understand its role or strays across boundaries, intentionally or not, the relationship can be strained or fractured.

Unfortunately, it often takes an ethical failure and crisis to raise ethics training to the level of priority it deserves.

A training session I conducted recently on building effective supervisory skills generated interesting ethical dilemmas.