Identify a company that you are interested in or admire. The company must have a written code of conduct and ethics available for your review and evaluation.
Identify a company that you are interested in or admire. The company must have
a written code of conduct and ethics available for your review and evaluation.
Thus, you will most likely need to select a company that is registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission as a public company, as it is often difficult
to obtain private company codes of conduct and ethics.
2. Describe the background, business, size and other information you think is
important to provide a clear profile of the company.
3. Describe the stated purpose(s) or objective(s) of the company’s code of conduct
and ethics and list and describe the company’s core values.
4. Gather sufficient information to make an informed conclusion about the ethical
performance of a company. At a minimum, such information should include:
• News items illustrating ethical (community involvement, charitable
activities, etc.) and unethical activities (illegal acts, fraud, unethical
treatment of workers, mishandling of customer information, etc.)
• Ethics awards and honors
MGT 16 – Personal Ethics at Work
Corporate Ethics Project
2• Information about Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings
and performance (for example, from Yahoo! Finance)
• Information about competitiveness of employee compensation and
benefits, how employees are treated and reputation of management (for
example, from Glassdoor, where you can obtain ratings and comments)
• Any other information that helps you make an informed conclusion about
the company’s ethical performance.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The above is not all-inclusive and there are other potential
sources of information that can help you make your conclusion. What is
important is that you provide a breadth of information from a variety of sources.
Relying on just one or two pieces of information will be insufficient to support
your conclusion and your grade will be lower as a result.
5. After gathering sufficient information about the ethical performance of your
company, evaluate the company’s ethical performance based on the core values
stated in the company’s code of conduct and ethics and rate it on a scale of one
to five, with one being the least ethical and five being the most ethical. When
providing the rating, make certain that you describe how you reached your rating
in terms of the information you gathered in Step 4.
6. State whether you would accept a job offer from the company and describe why
or why not.
7. Provide access to the company’s code of conduct and ethics within the paper in
the form of a link.
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