Ethics programs and ethical culture

Ethics programs and ethical culture

Review the following articles:

Nel, P., Nel, L., & du Plessis, A. (2011). Implications for human resources and employment relations practice with regard to the integration of corporate ethics programmes into the culture of organizations. International Employment Relations Review, 17(2), 55-74.

Kaptein, M. (2009). Ethics programs and ethical culture: A next step in unraveling their multi-faceted relationship. Journal of Business Ethics, 89(2), 261-281. doi:10.2307/40295054

Discussion 1
• Use the EC Library to locate an article about the organization that addresses an issue associated with ethics.
• Choose the ethics theory most applicable to the issue in the article you chose.
• As a starting point for your investigation, review the organization’s documents and policies on their website. Many organizations have information on their ethics policies available. Identify current policy statement(s) and describe the current environment created by these policies.
• Indicate whether the organization has a clear ethics program or if it has only an espoused ethics policy.
• Identify at least two areas for improvement to create a strong ethical culture, based on the organization’s ethics program.

Discussion 2
• Create an evaluation checklist for a corporate ethics program.
• Identify an organization to evaluate (note: do not use Enron).
• Apply your evaluation checklist to this organization.
• Identify at least two strengths of the organization’s ethics program, as indicated from your checklist.
• Identify at least one area/item that should be added to your checklist to enhance the evaluation.

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“Raiding customer assets at MF Global: Who was responsible?” is an article that addresses issues associated with ethics. The Corporate ethical virtues theory is the most applicable theory of ethics that suits issues highlighted in the article………………………….

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