How to assign roles and responsibilities for managing ethics
1. Business ethics goes online.
BusinessWeek Online allows visitors to search for a wide variety of articles dealing with ethics in business. Using its search feature, articles can be retrieved covering a wide variety of ethical dilemmas affecting the business world including information about the Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom scandals as well as Imclone and Martha Stewart.
2. When in doubt, don’t.
There’s a common phrase in business that goes something like this: It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. OK, so red tape can be annoying, time-consuming, and so on. When the issue is ethics, however, the maxim must be: when in doubt, don’t do it!
3. Business ethics out the door.
• In 2003, after much criticism and allegations of ethical violations, the chief executive at Boeing, Philip M. Condit, announced his resignation (C. …
