Hello! 

 I was wondering if anybody is/was involved in a company  that has an active ethics program. And can share with  me the processes, requirements etc of such a program. 
 
I know it's compulsory for public limited companies in  the US and in Canada... 
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations specify that a specific, high-level individual should  be responsible for ethical behaviour. 
 
I am not too sure about how this works in the UK and in  India. 
 
Eg. How many ethics officers per 100 employees? How is  an ethics audit done typically? How often? Etc. 
 
Thank you so much. 

Sophiya

Dear sophiya,

I do not think any organization in India is seriously involved in any such effort.I have been invoved with an American MNC-India operation- to make a psychological test to measure ethical inclination of their managers and for their selection purposes. And that is all I know of.

tesmian

Dear Sophiya,

All TATA group companies have Ethics Program and give importance to Corporate Governance. There is an Ethics Officer who is appointed to deal with all issues related to this.

During the induction itself, the new joinees are oriented that ethics play a vital role in the organisation and violating the same would lead to termination of job.

Warm Regards

Ash

Dear All,

I think Wipro has something of this sort. They call it Corporate Ombudsman. I read an article about them in this context sometime last year in a magazine called IT People.

Suggest you check with them on this.

Again, I would like to state that in Public Sector Organisations there are Vigilance Departments which also take care of this aspect. Moreover, the Officers of PSUs are boung by a code of conduct in the form of Conduct, Discipline and Appeal Rules wherein this topic is covered to a large extent.

In all the govt departments, there r ethics committees contituted of certain members who look into behaviour , audit and lack of governance issues n submit reports to the govt n publish the same as n when reqd.

in many bpo's n organizations, HR dpt have behavioural specialists who look into such issues.

Regards

Sulekha Chandra