There are numerous benefits in formally managing ethics as a program, rather than as a one-shot effort when it appears to be needed. Ethics programs:
• Establish organizational roles to manage ethics
• Schedule ongoing assessment of ethics requirements
• Establish required operating values and behaviours
• Align organizational behaviours with operating values
• Develop awareness and sensitivity to ethical issues
• Integrate ethical guidelines to decision making
• Structure mechanisms to resolving ethical dilemmas
• Facilitate ongoing evaluation and updates to the program
• Help convince employees that attention to ethics is not just a knee-jerk reaction done to get out of trouble or improve public image
• Establish organizational roles to manage ethics
• Schedule ongoing assessment of ethics requirements
• Establish required operating values and behaviours
• Align organizational behaviours with operating values
• Develop awareness and sensitivity to ethical issues
• Integrate ethical guidelines to decision making
• Structure mechanisms to resolving ethical dilemmas
• Facilitate ongoing evaluation and updates to the program
• Help convince employees that attention to ethics is not just a knee-jerk reaction done to get out of trouble or improve public image