Strategies for Managing Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, offers a comparative analysis of strategies companies use to manage ethics:
Relying on employee values.  This approach assumes employees are ethical and that if you expect ethical behavior you'll get it.

Compliance, an approach emphasizing obedience to relevant laws and regulations

Ethics exhortation involves training employees to identify ethical dilemmas and ask good questions about possible ethical standards.

Managing values.  Corporate values and standards are defined.  The company educates, models, and rewards these values and standards.

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