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 According to Kaptein (2015), organizations must decide which components of an ethics

program to implement when, in addition to whether to do so. Kaptein also alleges that This study

demonstrates that organizations with ethics programs experience unethical behavior less

frequently than firms without such programs. There are nine elements of ethics programs that

were discovered and looked at. The findings indicate that the frequency of observed unethical

behavior and the number of components embraced are directly correlated. Pre-employment

screening and unethical behavior were not linked, whereas accountability policies and unethical

behavior were found to be most closely related. The study also demonstrates that the ideal order

for implementing an ethics program's components is (1) an ethics code, (2) ethics training, and

(Kaptein (2009)

References
Kaptein, M. (2015). The effectiveness of ethics programs: The role of scope, composition, and
sequence. Journal of Business Ethics, 132(2), 415-431.

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.

Stansbury, J., & Barry, B. (2007). Ethics programs and the paradox of control. Business Ethics
Quarterly, 17(2), 239-261.

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