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Company Publishes Ethics Guideline
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Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

(OP)
Things are looking up. My company just put out an ethics guideline that makes it easy to report questionable practices 24-7 without ident. Complaints are handled by a third party and reported for resolution by higher management.

RE: Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

That wouldn't be INCO by any chance would it?

RE: Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

(OP)
No, it's another company in the automotive field. I hope it proves to be a trend.

Many years ago I had experience with a boss who perpetrated the most unethical scheme imaginable. A project I was managing turned up a supplier that I didn't recognise. Material shipped to my attention was tagged by company X. It turned out that company X was a ghost intermediate company managed by the boss to siphon off money spent on the project.

I talked to others about this, and they said that was nothing. We got into a "Can You Top This" discussion. The specialty of Plant/Facility Engineering is notorious for abuses. One power plant executive had a steel outbuilding installed on his property by plant personnel at company expense.

Can you top this?

RE: Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

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Don't know if it's a "trend", but every company I've worked for in the last 15 yrs has had both published ethics guidelines as well anonymous phone lines.

The big issue is whether the guidelines are adhered to and whether the management structure is truly motivated to enforce the ethics guidelines.

Even Arthur Anderson had both internal and external ethical guidelines that it violated.

TTFN

RE: Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

I once worked for a defense company in FL which survived a tornado.  Much damage was sustained, but the buildings were still standing.  The next day, the plant manager went out and put an ice pick to all of the ac units to up the insurance claim.

RE: Company Publishes Ethics Guideline

Please!!!!!!!!!

You can write all the ethics guidelines, document, memos, etc and they will accomplish very little.  If you lack the personal ethics/morals/integrity that is required to do the job, you will have no problem not adhearing to a sheet of paper.

I agree with IRstuff, if management does not strictly enforce practices which violate company policy, then why should it expect employees to.  Biggest problem is that it is often management that is violating the ethics policy, not the general employee.

Ethics can not be enforced... it is a part of one's character.  If you are unethical to begin with, then there is nothing that can be done to change that.

jetmaker

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