Frequently Asked Question: Why is an annual employee signoff important to the success of the code of ethics?

An annual employee signoff serves three major purposes. It highlights the importance of the code of ethics if an employee has to acknowledge reading it on an annual basis, discussing it as part of an annual performance appraisal, and demonstrating knowledge about to whom to go when facing certain dilemmas, as well as acknowledging relevant

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Frequently Asked Question: What is an employee assistance program (EAP)?

Employee assistance programs involve giving confidential advice on personal, family and other employee problems, usually through an independent third party. EAPs are designed to deal with the fact that “an estimated 68% of all employees will, at some time, experience workplace problems severe enough to see them struggle and fail to cope with day-to-day performance

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Frequently Asked Question: What is a health promotion program (HPP) and how does it differ from an employee assistance program (EAP)?

A health promotion program’s main concern is “health promotion and preventative medicine rather than treatment,” which is the focus of an EAP (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 3, page 41). An HPP tends to “employ different professionals [than an EAP]: recreation therapists, vocational counsellors and nutritionists as distinct from psychologists, social workers and

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Frequently Asked Question: What is corporate culture?

Corporate culture is the basis of any company’s code of ethics and is described as being ‘the way we do things around here’ (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 1, page 14). The idea of an organization’s culture can be applied to any group or corporation, small, medium or large. Is the employee encouraged

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Frequently Asked Question: What is an ethics or social audit?

“Social or ethical auditing is a technique intended to complement traditional financial accounting” (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 10, Issue 1, page 12). Social and ethics audits are used by corporations as an “effective and verifiable framework within which to measure and test their non-financial performance” (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 10, Issue 1, page

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Frequently Asked Question: What is corporate social responsibility?

An organization that exhibits corporate social responsibility performs so that it is both “directly and indirectly sensitive to the reasonable needs of various sectors in society” (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 1, page 1). In other words, it is – and is seen to be – responsive to various stakeholders’ needs. Companies that

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Fast and Flawed Inspections of Factories Abroad

Current factory inspections programs are flawed, with deliberate mis-labelling and corruption in factories in China, resulting in shoddy and unsafe products on shelves of retailers like WalMart, says a New York Times investigation story.   http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/business/global/superficial-visits-and-trickery-undermine-foreign-factory-inspections.html?pagewanted=all