Resources for Writing a Code of Ethics
ONLINE :
- CSEP's newsletter, Perspectives, featured a Fall 1999 issue on Writing a Code of Ethics
- The Ethics Resource Center has a toolkit available for use. When used for commercial purposes, a nominal license fee is required.
- Articles on Code Of Ethics, compiled by Chris MacDonald
- Creating A Code Of Ethics for Your Organization, with many suggested books, by Chris MacDonald
- Business for Social Responsibility's Codes of Ethics article
- Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers by Carter McNamara
- Interpreting Your Code article by Cornelius von Baeyer, outlining principles and approaches for using a code of ethics within an organization, with the Canadian Council for International Co-operation as the case study
- Recommendations for Developing Codes of Conduct, sites from Virginia Tech
- "Globalizing a Code of Ethics" by Cheryl Raven (2004), from the Ethics Resource Center.
- "Guidelines
for Developing Non-profit Codes" and "Implementing
an Organizational Code of Ethics" by William Miller
International Business Ethics Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1. Available thorough the the International Business Ethics Institute
- Institute of Business Ethics based in the United Kingdom, has a codes of conduct page with a number of resources for developing a code of ethics for large and small businesses.
- International Business Ethics Review, newsletter of the International Business Ethics Institute, has published a Winter 2004 issue (Vol. 7, #1) with a special focus on "Organizational Codes of Ethics", with suggestions on creating an effective electronic code of conduct, as well as guidelines for non-profits, among other useful articles. Also see "Writing an Effective Global Code of Conduct" by Lori Tansey Martens in Vol. 8, Issue 1 of The International Business Ethics Review.
- The Journal of Mass Media Ethics offered a 2002 special issue on Codes of Ethics (link offers table of contents, with abstracts, only).
- "Can You Improve your Code of Ethics?" American Society of Newspaper Editors, October 25, 2000.
- "Twenty Questions to Ask about Your Code of Conduct". Joe Murphy and Win Swenson. Ethikos and Corporate Conduct Quarterly (July/August 2003).
PRINT :
- Codes of Conduct for Partnership in Governance: Texts and Commentaries.
Edited by Tatsuro Kunungi and Martha Schweitz, Tokyo, Japan: The United
Nations University, 1999.
- Creating a Workable Company Code of Ethics. Washington D.C.:
Ethics Resource Center, 1990. (Second edition, 2003). Order
- Fairweather, N. Ben. "No, PAPA: Why Incomplete Codes of Ethics
are Worse than None at All", in Ethics in the Age of Information
Technology, G. Collste, (ed). Linkoeping, Sweden: Center for Applied
Ethics, Linkoeping Universitet, 2000.
- Frankel, Mark S. "Professional Codes: Why, How, and with What
Impact?" Journal of Business Ethics 8 (1989): 109-115.
- Gaumnitz, Bruce R. and John C. Lere. "Contents of Codes of Ethics
of Professional Business Organizations in the United States". Journal
of Business Ethics 35.1 (January 2002): 35-49. Link
to abstract
- Sandra Trice Gray, CAE. "Codify
Your Ethics". Association Management Pg. 288 (August
1996)
- Implementation and Enforcement of Codes of Ethics in Corporations
and Associations. Washington D.C.: Ethics Resource Center, 1980.
- Kaptein, Muel. "Business Codes of Multinational Firms: What Do
They Say?" Journal of Business Ethics 50.1 (March 2004):
13–31. Link
to abstract
- Kaptein, Muel and Johan Wempe. "Twelve Gordian Knots When Developing
an Organizational Code of Ethics". Journal of Business Ethics
17.8 (June 1998): 853-69. Link
to abstract
- Molander, E. A. "A Paradigm for Design, Promulgation and Enforcement
of Ethical Codes". Journal of Business Ethics 6 (November
1987): 619-626.
- Tucker, Lewis, Vlasis Staghakopolous, and Charles H. Patti. "A
Multidimensional Assessment of Ethical Codes: The Professional Business
Association Perspective". Journal of Business Ethics 19.3
(April 1999): 287–300. Link
to abstract
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