Ethics- A Holistic Approach

• Introduction to Business Ethics
• 2003 Observed Misconduct Survey
• Foundation of Ethical Business Practices
• Ethics Officer Association Survey
• Pressure to Compromise Ethics Standards
• Reasons to Conduct Business Ethically
• Ethical Decision Making
• Ethical Approaches

Ethics Leadership

• Role of Leadership
• Employee Perceptions: Ethical Actions of Leadership
• Strengthening Ethics Leadership
• Who Are Ethics Leaders Within Organizations?
• Ethical Business Leaders
• Chief Officers’ Involvement in Culture, Values and Ethics
• Organization Examples — Best Practice Reporting Structures
• The Role of the CEO
• CEO Statements on Ethics, Diversity & Values
• Role of Chief Ethics Officer
• Ethics Officer Reporting Structure
• Ethics Office Staff
• Ethics Committees
• Corporate Examples: Ethics Committees
• The Role of the Chief Financial Officer
• The Role of Human Resources
• The Human Resources Forum Survey: HR as Corporate Conscience: An
• Emerging Role?
• The Role of the Chief Technology Officer
• The Role of the Chief Communications Officer
• The Role of the Chief Diversity Officer
• The Role of the Legal Department
• The Role of Consultants

Ethics Leadership: The Board of Directors

• Role of Board of Directors
• Structure of Board of Directors
• Board of Director Committees & Councils
• Board of Director Ethics Responsibilities
• Ethics and Compliance Programs
• Corporate Board Member’s Roundtable Discussion
• Board of Directors Diversity Leadership
• Board Structure
• Calvert- Nominating Committee Model Charter Language on Board
• Diversity
• Principles for the Board of Directors
• Corporate Examples- Board and Diversity
• Conclusion
• National Association of Corporate Directors

Ethical Culture

• How to Build a Culture of Integrity
• Cultural Assessment
• Abbott Cultural Assessment
• Characteristics of a Healthy Organizational Culture
• Cultural Trends
• The Importance of a Values-Based Culture
• Ethical Cultures Support Diversity
• Assessing Organizational Culture
• Corporate Culture as the Foundation of Internal Control
• Sustaining a Culture of Integrity
• Ethical Values, Practices and Outcomes
• Ten Trends in Culture and Values
• Corporate Examples: Culture and Values

Corporate Ethics Programs

• Corporate Ethics Programs
• Origins of Corporate Ethics Programs
• External and Internal Influences on
• Ethics Management Programs
• Integrated Ethics Program Practices: Ethics-oriented Performance Appraisal
• Benefits of Managing Ethics as a Program
• Human Resource’s Role in Managing Ethics Programs
• The Reporting System as a Component
• Organizational Ombudsman as a Component of
• Ethics Management Program

Organizational Codes

• The Role of the Code of Conduct
• 20 Questions To Ask About Your Code of Conduct
• Role of the Code of Ethics in Building Reputation
• Deloitte & Touche: Guidelines for Writing a Code of Ethics/Conduct
• Corporate Examples: Codes of Conduct & Code of Ethics
• Efforts of Those Outside the Corporate World
• Code of Ethics/Conduct Resource Centers

Corporate Communications & Ethics

• Corporate Communications and Ethics Findings & Trends
• Corporate Communications and Ethics
• Corporate Communications Questionnaire
• Best Practices Have Channels for
• Employee Communications on Ethics
• Corporate Ethics: Internal & External Communications
• Staffing for Ethics Communications
• Measurement of Ethics Communications’ Impact
• Annual Reports and Ethics
• Corporate Communication and Financial Reporting
• Executive Communications
• Ethics - Related Global Communications
• Communications Training
• Ethics-Related Publications
• Ethics & Advertising
• American Marketing Association Code of Ethics
• Corporate Social Reporting
• Corporate Reputation: Proactive and Reactive Impression Management Strategies
• How Much Do You Communicate About Company Ethics?
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Relations
• Weber Shandwick Survey: The Corporate Reputation Insider, 2003
• Best Practices Companies: Integrating Communications
• Ethics-Related Communication Resources
• Ethics Awareness: Web Site Survey

Branding and Ethics

• Branding and Ethics
• Opportunities and Challenges of Tying Corporate Governance to Ethics
• Looking Ahead

The Relationship between Ethics & Social Responsibility

• The Relationship Between Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Motivations Behind Corporate Social Responsibility
• The Organization and its Interaction with the Environment
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Investors
• Calvert Special Report: Corporate Responsibility Matters
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability
• Preventing Corporate Social Irresponsibility
• Government Guidelines and Regulations
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Responsibility Act 2002
• Deloitte & Touche Consumer Business Practice Readiness Survey
• Business Ethics and Compliance in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era:
• A Survey by Deloitte and Corporate Board Member Magazine
• SEC Rules on Code of Ethics
• SEC Approves Final NYSE Corporate Governance Standards
• Additional Proposals
• International Business Ethics

Ethics & Financial Performance

• Ethics and Financial Performance
• More Evidence Responsible Corporations
• Have Better Financial Performance
• Socially Responsible Investing
• Calvert - Socially Responsible Investing: Transparency & Disclosure
• Calvert - Socially Responsible Investing: Corporate Governance Guidelines
• Calvert - Socially Responsible Investing: Board Diversity

Ethics & Employees

• Ethics and Employees
• Ethics - Driven Employee Communications
• Employee Rights
• Ethics and Diversity
• The Essence of Ethical Leadership - New Directions
• Ethics and Diversity Under One Roof
• Sixteen Trends in Diversity
• Companies and their Diversity Strategies
• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) And Legal
• Tied to Ethics and Diversity
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Evaluating Representation
• The Role of the Legal Department in Ethics and Diversity
• The Cases Will Continue
• Investigating Employee Misconduct in a Diverse Workplace
• Legal Definitions

Ethics Education & Training

• Ethics Training
• How to Create Effective Ethics Training
• Corporate Training Examples
• Electronic Training Platforms
• A Case Study on Deloitte Ethics Training
• The Role of Business Schools in Ethics Education
• Challenges Faced by Academic Institutions
• Recent Ethics Education Highlights
• Ethics Education for CEOs
• The Future
• Select Academic Ethics Centers

Corporate Governance

• Corporate Governance
• The CEO and Corporate Governance
• The Business Roundtable‘s Principles of Corporate Governance
• Transparency
• Improving Corporate Governance
• The Role of the Board in Corporate Governance
• Leaders in Corporate Governance
• International Corporate Governance
• Global Corporate Governance Forum
• The Economist Intelligence Unit Online Survey
• Corporate Board Member Survey
• 2003 National Business Ethics Survey

Executive Compensation

• Executive Compensation
• Business Roundtable‘s Principles of Executive Compensation
• NACD Report: Executive Compensation and the Role of the
• Compensation Committee

Succession Planning

• Succession Planning Overview
• Succession Planning Roles
• Characteristics of Effective Succession Planning Programs
• Implementing Effective Succession Planning Practices
• Succession & Diversity
• Succession Planning Obstacles
• Benchmarking Succession Planning Goals
• Corporate Retention Efforts

Integrating Ethics and Compliance Programs

• Integrating Ethics and Compliance Programs
• Characteristics of Effective Compliance Programs
• Corporate Compliance Structure within the Organization
• The National Business Ethics Survey: Highlights on Compliance Issues
• The Ethics Officer Association: The Impact of Recent Legislation and
• Regulation on Ethics and Compliance Programs
• Compliance Programs
• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
• Examining The Legal And Business Risks of Compliance Programs

Fraud

• Fraud
• Reduce Temptation to Commit Fraud
• KPMG Fraud Survey
• Ethics: Going Astray By Small Steps

Whistleblowing

• Whistleblowing
• The Whistleblowing Debate
• Reporting Misconduct and Related Issues
• Reasons for Reporting Misconduct
• Guidelines for Whistleblowing
• Satisfied with Response to Reported Misconduct
• Whistleblower Procedures: Deloitte & Touche Audit Committee &
• Governance Survey Results

Globalizing the Ethics Program

• Globalizing the Ethics Program
• Identification of Influencers
• Difference in Ethical Standards
• Global Ethics Dilemmas: U.S. High Tech Companies
• Ethical Standards
• Reputation Matters: Transnational Corporations
• Global Perspectives

Ethical Crisis

• Ethical Crisis
• Recovering From Ethical Crisis
• Turnaround Stories
• Tyco International (US) Inc. Case Study

Measuring the Success of Ethics Programs

• Measuring Success of Ethics Programs
• Common Ethics Program Benchmarks
• Legal Benchmarks
• Corporate Examples: Benchmarks Corporate Examples: Ethics Best Practices
  
  • Business Roundtable
  • Calvert
  • Cingular Wireless
  • Deloitte
  • Dial
  • DuPont
  • Eastman Kodak Company
  • General Mills
  • Health Care Service Corporation
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Marathon Oil Corporation
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Raytheon
  • Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
  • The Timken Company
  • Xerox Corporation

  Additional Profiles
  

  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Altria Group, Inc.
  • Avon
  • Baxter International, Inc.
  • Bell South Corporation
  • BMC Software
  • Boeing
  • Cisco
  • Coors Brewing Company
  • The Dow Chemical Company
  • Duke Energy
  • Gap Inc.
  • General Electric
  • Hospital Corporation of America
  • HP
  • IBM
  • International Paper
  • MCI
  • Merck
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Pitney Bowes, Inc.
  • Progress Energy
  • Russell Corporation
  • SBC Communications, Inc
  • Shell Oil Company
  • Tenet Healthcare Corporation
  • Texas Instruments
  • Tyco International
  • United Technologies Corporation
  • United Parcel Service (UPS)
  • Waste Management, Inc.

  Appendix of Articles
  

  • More Evidence Responsible Corporations Have Better Financial Performance
  • Testimony to the Advisory Group on Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations

  Select Academic Ethics Centers and University Affiliated Ethics Institutions
  Select Additional International Associations
  Ethics Related Publications
  Additional Ethics-Related Resources