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Ethics management : auditing and developing the ethical content of organizations

Why is ethics important to organizations? It is easier to say that ethics is necessary than to tell how to organize ethics. This study examines the assumptions for organizing ethics, the pitfalls and phases of such a process, the parts of an ethics audit and the great variety of measures.
Print Book, English, 1998
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998
IX, 228 Seiten : Diagramme.
9780792350958, 9780792350965, 0792350952, 0792350960
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0.1 Confidence as key.- 0.2 The ABC of Business Ethics.- 0.3 Three research questions.- 0.4 Structure of the study.- I: Defining the Ethical Content.- 1: The Corporate Mission.- 2: Ethics Management.- 3: The Ethical Company.- II: Auditing the Ethical Content.- 4: The Ethical Qualities Model.- 5: The Ethics Audit in Practice.- III: Developing the Ethical Content.- 6: The Ethics Process.- 7: The Ethics Mix.- 8 : Summary and Conclusions.- References.- Appendices.- 1: Agenda for follow-up research.- 2: The Ethics Thermometer.- 3: Ethics profiles of four organizations.