Professional Documents
Culture Documents
INVOLVES
• Familiarize yourself with with firm specific
• Negotiating an ethical framework for the firm that all
the members of the group can support.
• Developing guidelines to help the business function
ethically
Group Project
Ethical empowerment
The delegation of authority for ethical
decision making.
It is a top-down notion
Trust goes in both hands.
Firm trusts managers/employees.
Managers/employees trust firm.
Accountability and Responsibility
What is accountability?
Focuses attention on rules and regulations
rather than judgement.
What do calls for accountability often
produce.
Continued..
What is a
Professional Code?
Business Code?
Industry Code?
General Statement of Values & guiding
principals
A code of ethics acts as a unifying device,
An organization commits itself to ethical
principals as a foundation for how it will operate.
Competence And professional Standards
Code of ethics
Aspirational (virtuous)
State values and allow for assessment.
Self-regulation.
Contribute to empowerment and trust (core ethical
values)
Made publicly available and thus can contribute to
improved relations with society, not just customers, or
those with a ‘holding’).
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