of Ethics Online Collection: None
Professional Practice
In order to promote highest quality of performance
in the practice of management consulting, ACME has developed
the following standards of good practice for the guidance
of the profession. Member firms subscribe to these practices
because they make for equitable and satisfactory client relationships
and contribute to success in management consulting.
1. We will strive continually to advance and protect the standards
of the management consulting profession. We will strive continually
to improve our knowledge, skills, and techniques, and will
make available to our clients the benefits of our professional
attainments.
2. We recognize our responsibilities to the public interest
and to our profession to contribute to the development and
understanding of better ways to manage the various formal
institutions in our society. By reason of education, experience,
and broad contact with management problems in a variety of
institutions, management consultants are especially qualified
to recognize opportunities for improving managerial and operating
processes; and they have an obligation to share their knowledge
with managers and their colleagues in the profession.
3. We recognize our responsibility to the profession to share
with our colleagues the methods and techniques we utilize
in serving clients. But we will not knowingly, without their
permission, use proprietary data, procedures, materials, or
techniques that other management consultants have developed
but not released for public use.
4. We will not make offers of employment to consultants on
the staffs of other consulting firms without first informing
them. We will not engage in wholesale or mass recruiting of
consultants from other consulting firms. If we are approached
by consultants of other consulting firms regarding employment
in our firm or in that of a client, we will handle each situation
in a way that will be fair to the consultant, the firm, and
the client.
5. We will not solicit employees of clients for employment
by us or by others, except with the consent of the client.
If we are approached by employees of clients regarding employment
in our firm or in that of another client, we will make certain
that we have our clients' consent before entering into any
negotiations with employees.
6. We will continually evaluate the quality of the work done
by our staff to insure, insofar as is possible, that all of
our engagements are conducted in a competent manner.
7. We will endeavor to provide opportunity for the professional
development of those who enter the profession, by assisting
them to acquire a full understanding of the functions, duties,
and responsibilities of management consultants, and to keep
up with significant advances in their areas of practice.
8. We will administer the internal and external affairs of
our firm in the best interest of the profession at all times.
9. We will not advertise our services in self-laudatory language
or id any other manner derogatory to the dignity
of the profession.
10. We will respect the professional reputation and practice
of other management consultants. This does not remove the
moral obligation to expose unethical conduct of fellow members
of the profession to the proper authorities.
11. We will strive to broaden public understanding and enhance
public regard and confidence in the management consulting
profession, so that management consultants can perform their
proper function in society effectively. We will conduct ourselves
so as to reflect credit on the profession and to inspire the
confidence, respect, and trust of clients and the public.
In the course of our practice, we will strive to maintain
a wholly professional attitude toward those we serve, toward
those who assist us in our practice, toward our fellow consultants,
toward the members of other professions, and the practitioners
of applied arts and sciences.
