what action plans can I take to achieve ethics in a company?
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Hire people of good character and make sure they know your expectations and buy into your company's mission.
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A well sturctured organisation should behave well. As a tree is judged by its fruits... However, there are many people in the world who do not have good intentions. I personally do not support any business that is involved in any sort of immoral beaviour at all.
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1.  Segregation of duties - do not have one person do alot of things in a certain area\n2.  Internal control system - ensure that individuals are restricted, based on their level, from accessing certain areas, performing different functions, and overriding the internal control system.\n3.  Establish ethics and conflict-of-interest policies\n4.  Avoid management pressures and incentives\n5.  Background checks of management and executives\n6.  Avoid electing directors with significant equity ownership and little experience\n7.  Avoid family relationships among directors and officers\n8.  Staff internal auditors and have regular and thorough internal audits (this is hard to do since many internal auditors do not like repetition and the pay is minimal).\n9.  Implement a whistle blower process or hotline\n10. Implement a document retention policy and inform employees of this.\n11.  Learn generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)\n12.  Conduct an external audit, yearly.
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no, although ethics is taught in every business curriculum, there are people that will still (when the opportunity presents itself) ensure corporate scandals. \n\nI think a better way would be to have an outside company audit companies more frequently.
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Be dependable, ethical and honorable.
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If you own the company it would be logical that you could make long distance calls.  In this way it would not only be logical but ethical as well.
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Work your tail off. Do the stuff that others won't do cause they are "too good for that". Take calculated risks and gambles. Develop a passion about something and know it inside and out. Make yourself the expert in an area. Never hesitate to help someone else and make sure everyone you know knows exactly what your business is so that they might either use you or recommend someone to use you. Think outside the box. Travel and get out of your usual environment to give yourself better perspective. Eat drink and sleep whatever the passion is...
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Determine what measurable attributes (metrics) reflect performance in your field. Decide upon a reasonable goal/ target based on historical performance in your group, regulatory guidelines, etc.\n\nFor example, if you are in manufacturing, you might set a safety goal. A measurable attribute would be # of lost time accidents per month. You might start with a goal of <20 per month, then do research and learn that OSHA frowns upon >10 per month, and then you might realize that your group is at 15/month. So you'll be able to start narrowing down your target from there. \n\nThe same method can be used in different fields. If you have (internal or external) customers, you can ask them for input into targets. If the organization has overall performance goals, you can use those to set your targets (SLAs), and so on.
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Professional advice about how a company can save money is only going to be successful if all levels of management are encouraged to share responsible strategies.\nSteven Berger said most managers want more accountability.
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Workplace Ethics are defined by kind of work that is in hand apart from Ehtics that are applicable in CIVIL society. There are many organization that offer workplace ethics training and while browsing some of their values I tend to believe in following.\n\n1. Professionalism, \n2. Accountability, \n3. Avoidance of harassment and discrimination, \n4. Occupational health and safety, \n5. External communications to shareholders, clients and the public, \n6. The balance between transparency and openness on the one hand and confidentiality on the other, \n7. Community relations, \n6. Responsible business practice (prohibitions on bribery, gifts, nepotism, self-dealing), and even \nbusiness goals (such as becoming market leader). \n\n\nGo to following link to read nice article.
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Make yourself invaluable to the company. Get a better education and volunteer for more projects. Give them a reason to keep you!
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try out \nwww.business.com\nwww.business-ethics.com\n& type this word on yahoo.com ,search
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Try starting with an employee suggestion scheme. Implement the good ideas and reward the proponents. And then formalise the evaluation process so people know that ideas wont be ignored by prejudiced managers.
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First of all, you have to follow rules as much as you can but at times, pragmatism doesnt allow following of rules beyond a certain extent.\n\nIn that case, be ready to be flexible but try to judge things on your values & standards. you should never cross your values in doing business or breaking rules. \n\nFor profitable business, there are many other options, Find out the needs of the market, then operate in that segment.
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By referral is the best.  If not, set up appointments and interview them and ask about their investment strategies and ethical standings.\n\nBut before any of this, read Investment for Dummies to bring yourself up to speed on investments.  You have to know the minimum before investing.
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business ethics is an OXYMORON today. The 11th Commandment is what rules business.\n\n" If you do it, don't get caught "
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tell them to put in writing, this normally will quench an over zealous company; ask them by detailing exactly what you have allegedly done. As mentioned criminal acts can still be pursued with no time limits at all.