Ethics moving up the agenda
Where organisations are striving to achieve excellence in performance, they are increasingly required to be ethically excellent too. This can be from an employee’s perspective, that of customers and stakeholders.This does not mean a high profile, well publicised corporate fund raising effort for charity one day and a low profile, unpublicised tax evasion project the next.
Culture in any organisation, without exception, always stems from the top. Leadership by example, transparent communication and ongoing learning and development for all is a prerequisite. The common factor where ethics is either partial or absent altogether, is the desire of one or more people to achieve personal gain at the expense of others.
Discussing this with a CEO group recently we concluded that as a leader:
‘Everything that we think, do or say, every day, matters’. And that is tough.
posted by Tim @ 2:45 AM
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