Enterprise Code of Ethics

Author: Chang Yaping
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Code of Business Ethics is a practically operational outcome of the collaborative work between theoretical researchers and entrepreneurs. It presents abstract ethical and moral concepts in a very concrete form, making them clear to every employee. It also addresses a troublesome issue in the realm of ethics—the problem of moral standards. Behavioral norms that constrain people include both laws and ethics. Legal standards are relatively clear, universally recognized, and consistent, whereas moral standards vary significantly. For a company to ask everyone to adhere to ethics, but if the moral standards vary greatly, it will be very troublesome to operate. The basic logical order of this book is as follows: Part 1 introduces the concept and origin of business ethics; Part 2 introduces how businesses can develop their own Code of Business Ethics; Part 3 introduces how businesses can promote their ethical codes; the final part presents case studies of the ethical codes of Fortune Global 500 companies from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.