Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

CREATING AN ETHICAL ORGANIZATION

As we have seen, HR professionals confront several ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work. The solutions to these are often difficult, but are not insurmountable. There are ways of managing ethics at the work place. First and foremost the top management should be committed to ethical behaviour and should be the role models to their employees in this respect. The organization should evolve codes of ethics for managers, executives and employees, and enforce them. Ethics committees should be formed with top executives as members to advice on ethical issues. These committees should have such important responsibilities such as fielding questions from employees, helping the organization in establishing policies in ...