Such teams represent excellent opportunities for employees to demonstrate leadership skills and raise productivity. Teamwork bogs down, though, when members with different opinions of ethics confront a problem to be solved consensually. In response to challenges like this, the Council offers to work with organizations to help teams identify lack of moral consensus and then develop a consistent outlook among team members. Complexity is the third need. Tom Peters, a journalist and business consultant, openly identifies this need as the most pressing ethics challenge for the average working person.
Efficiency is a strong value in our modern lives, especially at work.
Whether it is preferring speakers who make their points concisely or rewarding employees who complete assignments yesterday, throughout our lives we are motivated to choose the path of least resistance. Ethics, however, is complex. It stands as a facet of our lives that, like it or not, cannot be simplified easily. The process of optimally communicating this important, albeit complex concept is yet another call for an ethicist. The Council addresses this need by extracting the technical, philosophical language of applied ethics and supplying members and client organizations with clear, understandable information about values, guidelines, and the link between ethics and the law or compliance.