Is having corporate code of ethics effective as control system in your organization?why or why not?explain pls

Question

I encourage those in the corporate world whose companies have code of ethics to answer. Please indicate your company and position. Thank you very much

Answer 1

no. major chip maker, grunt
1. at my company i am required to take ethics classes, but i've never seen grunts like me being investigated for ethics violations
2. if a person has no regard for the law, i doubt he will have regard for ethics
3. they only push ethics to make people feel comfortable, no one exept a very few really know what a corporation is really doing

Answer 2

I refuse to work for a big corporation, one of the main reasons being the lack of ethics, friendly workplace, or decent treatment. In a corporation each employee is just a body at a desk programmed to do a job. The company doesn't care about the people so why should they care about each other?

I do see some corporations creating "code of ethics" or employee handbooks which address it. I think it's a lame PR move to show what an upstanding honest company they are. Or it's an attempt to push even further control over people, even know nobody is patrolling the rules so there is little enforcement.

Answer 3

I work for the vet services department of a corporation that breeds mice and rats. I also chair our corporate ethics committee. In our business ethics is, literally, everything. We MUST be bale to scientifically and ethically justify everything we do to an interested public. We must adhere to government standards to keep grant funding, but more importantly we adhere to a much higher set of standards voluntarily. This voluntary compliance drives most of our business, and works on the honor system. The fact that we make our living from living things means that many of our employees hold themselves even more responsible for the corporate ethics.

In my private life, I run an international development program fueled by grant money and donations, for which I must maintain an absolute code of ethics and transparency, as well.

Good question!

Answer 4

Codes of ethics are important, but are not replacements for good financial and personnel control systems. It would be foolish for example to tell your employees not to steal and then place a million dollars in the middle of the lobby unguarded. My father always said "Locks are for honest people." The bad guys will still find a way. Control systems on computers, financial transactions, time cards, etc. are as much to protect the honest people in your organization as to catch the crooks. If you don't have access, or followed the rules, then you are a suspect and don't carry culpability.

I am the president of my company.

Answer 5

My company has a code of ethics, but I doubt that it is effective because it is not enforced, this is more important. There can be subtle guidelines as to what is accepted "corporate" behavior and for those of us who are ethical beings we don't see it as an affront to us as employees. It's neither here nor there. If you are considering enforcing one be careful though because it gets too intrusive when you get too "nit-picky".

Answer 6

ITES Company, Account Manager

It is an individualistic approach. I follow ethics, but my associate does not. If someone doesnt want to follow and has not been following for a while, chances are that he wont follow at all.

Answer 7

It violates my experience of ethics to no longer have one. i'm a particularly serious human being, yet i appreciate a good snigger, and those who do not variety of malicious program me. i can't decide on which variety of human beings drives me extra insane - those with no humorousness or those that ought to't understand the idea of sarcasm and are unable to discover at the same time as sarcasm is getting used... Peace!

Answer 8

i dn't really know sorry