scholarly journals Corporate Codes of Ethics - The How Factor

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Ana Roque ◽  
José Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Corporate Code ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Success Indicators ◽  
Corporate Code Of Ethics

Although recognized as a key factor for its effectiveness, the adopted process for the development of a global corporate code of ethics, is one of the least documented aspects by Academia. The code is often created at central level and then sent for adoption and implementation to the different branches within the organisation, and the fact that they are not involved in the development process, frequently elicits resistance and compromises effectiveness. This was initially the case with the company of this study, where it was found that business units from different geographical locations had gradually made adaptations to the original code of the Group, which no longer remained the same across countries, neither in text nor in form, which led to the code review. Developed through an action-research methodology, this case study describes the review process which included 30 people from all the Group companies. All defined goals have been achieved. The different companies’ representatives consider that the participatory methodology was a key-factor to the general acceptance of the produced document. Three years after the code release, its efficacy was also evaluated with the Ethics Ombudsman who presented possible success indicators.

Metaphors and the Application of a Corporate Code of Ethics

2009 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone J. van Zolingen ◽  
Hakan Honders
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Corporate Code ◽  
Corporate Code Of Ethics

Ethical Considerations for Healthcare Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 266-278
Author(s):  
Paul R. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Corporate Code ◽  
Unethical Conduct

AbstractEthical misbehavior in the delivery of healthcare creates harm not only to individual therapists and administrators who might choose to overstep ethical boundaries but also, more broadly, causes harm to patients, to healthcare organizations, to professional organizations, and ultimately to society. Both corporate codes of conduct and professional codes of ethics are important, because they set standards of conduct and penalize noncompliant or unethical conduct. The purposes of this article are (1) to differentiate corporate compliance from ethics in a healthcare organization; (2) to explain the application of ethics principles to organizational and professional behaviors; (3) to discuss three important ethical issues (cultural competence, conflict of interest, and employer demands); and (4) to emphasize that, whether applying a corporate code of conduct or a professional code of ethics (or both), the integrity of each individual is essential to ethical behavior. To illustrate these concepts, ASHA's Code of Ethics is discussed in detail (including the ethics complaint adjudication process), and hypothetical case studies are presented under the macro headings of Cultural Competence, Conflict of Interest, and Employer Demands.

scholarly journals An Economic Instrument to Improve Migration

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Jan Stenis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Incentives ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
Shadow Cost ◽  
Economic Instrument

The Naturally Optimised Revenue Demand in Communities (NORDIC) model is employed to improve migration. The proposed model produces constructed shadow costs to be inserted into the public budgets to induce economic incentives to improve the integration of immigrants. The resulting shadow cost, and its impact on the PSBR, constitutes a single, key factor that by one digit only expresses how successful the integration is over time. The human tolerance is encapsulated in the launched model through a single factor in the NORDIC model equation that considers the population's general acceptance of immigrants that affects the result. Particularly, the case study shows how refugees should be better integrated into the Swedish society by application of the NORDIC model. The results point at a promising methodology for successfully integrating migrants by using economic instruments. The major conclusion is that the NORDIC model can be used for improving the immigration to a nation. In particular, the suitable level of refugee-reception is possible to determine by employing the NORDIC model in a societal context to improve a nation’s GDP and the citizens’ welfare. Possible end users are the migration-authorities and politicians that want a comprehensive tool to improve the efficiency of the reception of immigrants and refugees to the current nation. Recommendations for the use of the proposed model are given and further research suggested.

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