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
A code of professional conduct outlines the acceptable or desirable behaviours and practices of a particular profession such as doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, and ethicists. Many corporations and whole industries use these codes as a replacement for a code of ethics. Unfortunately, codes of professional conduct do not cover enough areas to warrant calling them full
“I was reminded recently that there’s a reason that PR people (and I count myself as one) are sometimes lumped with manipulators of the truth. That’s because a few misguided players can confuse the role of PR.PR used correctly, is rooted in transparency, not duplicity. PRSA, the largest US public relations professional organization, has a
An interesting perspective on creating a Code of Ethics for Economists
For those of you about to amend your own code of conduct or go through a similar exercise, you may find this of interest.
Wikipedia defines a psychic” as a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception (ESP), or is said by others to have such abilities. …It can also denote an ability of the mind to influence the world physically and to the telekinetic powers allegedly professed by those
John Paul Rollent argues that the content of business ethics codes is far less important than the courage to see them implemented.Going back to the days of Benjamin Franklin he notes, “… Franklin’s code may not have not have much to add to the current debate over whether management can properly be called a profession,
My friend Donna Boehme is looking for feedback. She wrote to me as follows: “You have probably seen the news that the OECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery compliance programs. Joe Murphy and I have been participating in this process, and Joe represented SCCE in the
In today’s Toronto Sun, Peter Worthington concludes that ethics cannot be taught.Commenting on Justice Oliphant’s recommendations that public servants (and MPs) get better ethics training,Worthington notes that” a case can be made that “ethics” are something that you either have, or you don’t have… All the training, teaching, studying, reading, or lectures in “ethics” will