As the Chair of the Board of Entergy (one of the largest utilities in the South) and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM, the largest organization of Human Resources), we depend greatly on the quality, enthusiasm, and trust of our employees as well as the strong trust and support of shareholders, customers, and association members. We have both seen, firsthand, how important articulating and then demonstrating genuine, consistent ethical leadership and values-driven decision making is to the business success of companies and organizations.
For decades SHRM has been committed to supporting visible, strong commitments by employers’ Human Resources teams to ethical leadership. That is where employers create an organizations’ cultures and establish what they expect of their employees and organizations as a whole. We believe, with deep conviction, that ethics and ethical leadership, and values-based decision making, are among the most critical factors leading to employee satisfaction, enthusiasm, and commitment – as we have seen at Entergy and SHRM for many years with our organizations’ commitments to ethics and ethical leadership, ready to be accountable for our values-based decision making.
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