Roger Steare is a British ethicist and corporate philosopher. He has been an Honorary Visiting Professor and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School, and Visiting Professor of European Studies at the College of Europe. He is the author of books on corporate ethics and a columnist for the Financial Times, also working at the FT's Headspring Executive Development.
Professor Roger Steare FRSA | |
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| Born | Brighton, Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, University of London |
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| Website | thecorporatephilosopher |
Career
editSteare's early career included roles as a social worker and banker, and ten years as chief executive of a recruitment company.[1]
He was Honorary Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School in London. He taught on the Executive MBA Programs as well as consulting with external corporate clients through Cass Executive Education.[1][2]
He is also a fellow of the cross-party policy think tank, ResPublica[3][4] founded by Phillip Blond in 2009. Steare's essay on The Power of Love in Business was included in ResPublica's "Changing The Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain".[5]
Steare was a member of the Expert Drafting Committee for Rights and Humanity, invited by the British Government to prepare recommendations for the G20 London Summit in April 2009.[6][7][8]
In collaboration with Athens-based chartered psychologist Pavlos Stamboulides, Steare conducts empirical research on moral character, judgement and behaviour. Some of this research was published in The Times[9] in October 2010, in a speech by Hector Sants of the Financial Services Authority in 2010,[10][11] by PwC UK in 2010,[12] and in The challenges of risk, culture, behaviour and corporate integrity in financial services[13] for EY in 2017. He is co-designer of the psychometric profile MoralDNA, used to measure moral values.[1]
Steare is the author of Ethicability, first published in 2006 and now in its 5th edition,[14] and of Thinking Outside the Inbox, published in 2019.[14] He is a regular contributor to Chartered Banker[15] magazine in which he challenges the "dysfunctional totalitarian construct" of modern corporations,[16] In July 2020, he became a columnist for the Financial Times.[17]
On 22 July 2012, he was a guest on the BBC World Service's "In the Balance" programme, in an episode entitled Holding Companies to Account.[18]
In 2014, Steare was appointed Visiting Professor of European Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges.[19] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[6][7][20][21]
Steare has developed programs in leadership, ethics and corporate responsibility for organisations including BP,[10] Citigroup,[22] HSBC,[10] PwC,[22][23] the Financial Services Authority[1] and the Serious Fraud Office.[24]
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, BP incorporated Steare's ethicability RIGHT framework for ethical decision-making into the BP 2011 Code of Conduct.[25]
The Financial Times profiled Steare in 2012[26] and has more than once cited his definition of corporate culture as "the way human beings behave together — what they value and what they celebrate".[10][27] In March 2018, Steare was featured in The Guardian in an article profiling the role of philosophers in business.[28] As of 2024, he is working at the Financial Times' Headspring Executive Development.[29]
Bibliography
edit- Ethicability: How to Decide What's Right and Find the Courage to Do It (5th Revised ed.). Roger Steare Consulting Limited. 2013. ISBN 978-0955236976.
- Fitt, Jacky, ed. (2019). Thinking Outside the Inbox. United Kingdom: Roger Steare Consulting Limited. ISBN 978-0-9935712-2-0.
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Papers
edit- "The Board's Role in Establishing the Right Corporate Culture" (PDF). Business Risk – A Practical Guide for Board Members (A Director's Guide). Institute of Directors: 25–31. 2012. ISBN 9781904520-80-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012.
- "The Virtue of Enterprise" (PDF). ResPublica. 2014.
- "Virtuous Banking" (PDF). ResPublica. 2014.
- Managers and their MoralDNA (PDF). Chartered Management Institute. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015.
- The MoralDNA of Performance (PDF). Chartered Management Institute. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015.
- The challenges of risk, culture, behaviour and corporate integrity in financial services (PDF). EY. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2015.
- Goffee, Rob; Jones, Gareth; Steare, Roger (19 March 2018). "What would a moral organisation look like?". Management Today. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Smith, Emmanuelle. "Roger Steare, Cass Business School". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Executive Education University 'One of The World Leading Executive Universities'". Cass.city.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Roger Steare". Zermattsummit.org. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Prof Roger Steare". Econ.ihu.edu.gr. Archived from the original on 29 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Think Tank | Phillip Blond | Big Society | Government policy | Changing the Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain". ResPublica. Archived from the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b Professor Roger Steare. "Professor Roger Steare". Respublica.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b "Prof Roger Steare Speaker Profile Specialist Speakers Bureau". Specialistspeakers.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Cass Business School | TANC (The Actuarial Network at Cass): Ethicability – Insights into Moral DNA". Bunhill.city.ac.uk. 24 March 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ The Times (London), 8 October 2010, pp 56–7
- ^ a b c d Hill, Andrew (15 July 2012). "Corporate culture: Lofty aspirations". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Can culture be regulated?". Fsa.gov.uk. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Steare, Roger (2017). The challenges of risk, culture, behaviour and corporate integrity in financial services (PDF). EY.
- ^ a b "Read Roger's Books". The Corporate Philosopher. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Comment, "Workplace itself is a totalitarian plutocratic state"". Financial Times. 14 February 2011.
- ^ "Safety at work goes beyond pandemic worries". Financial Times. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "Holding Companies to Account". In the Balance. 22 June 2012. BBC. World Service. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "College of Europe - Roger Steare". College of Europe. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ "Roger Steare Business Ethics Lecture". SCY. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "The Morals of Money—How to Build a Sustainable Economy and Financial Sector". Qfinance. 19 January 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b "Roger Steare | Corporate Philosopher | Keynote Speaker". Gordonpoole.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "PricewaterhouseCoopers Media Centre – PwC brings in corporate ethics guru Roger Steare as an adviser". PricewaterhouseCoopers. 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "The Institute of Business Ethics | About us | SFO – Serious Fraud Office". SFO. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "BP" (PDF). Bp.com.
- ^ "Roger Steare, Cass Business School". Financial Times. 5 July 2012.
- ^ Martin, Kevin (13 February 2020). "How to future-proof company culture". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ Tickle, Louise; Burke, Claire (29 March 2018). "I work therefore I am: why businesses are hiring philosophers". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^ "Future of AI Summit 2024 Agenda - FT Live Event". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 October 2024.