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follow the Applied
Ethics Integration Model;
see also other ethics & policy
tools; for general
reference.
(Please contact us if you
find any broken links.)
Excellent Resource
The site at Columbia HCA has hundreds
of pages of ethics and compliance documents they are willing
to allow other hospitals to use. Resources
Research on Business/Organizational
Ethics
The Bentley
Center website contains summaries of important surveys,
studies and data. Together they serve to make the business
case for business ethics by positively connecting ethics
and financial performance.
Principles of Corporate Self-governance
The sites that follow reflect the developing sense that
norms of corporate governance are at the very heart of organizational
ethics/integrity.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
has launched a major effort at developing international
norms for corporate self-governance. See the OECD
Corporate Affairs homepage and the OECD
Principles of Self-governance. Other OECD-identified
self-governance
links.
Essential Social Responsibility
of Business
For an excellent, extremely well-conceived and executed
resource about corporate
social responsibility see the resource center at Business
for Social Responsibility.
More on corporate
social responsibility. See also European
Commission draft Framework.
See also the Isenberg School of Management: Business
Links Ethics and Social Responsibility
See the following sites for resources about socially responsible
investing: Wharton
School Links to Socially Responsible Investing; Arizona
State University Library Links to Social Responsibility
and Ecology
For a multi-stakeholder approach to assessing social responsibility
see the global
reporting initiative.
Essential Social Responsibility
of Government:
An excellent
resource for US law and judicial decisions can be found
at: www.findlaw.com.
An excellent
source for US federal government ethics regulations is maintained
by the Office of Governmental
Ethics.
See
the Hoover Institute Report on Judicial
Corruption in developing countries for detailed treatment
of the social cost of judicial corruption.
See
also the Corruption
Perceptions Index report and Source
Book of Transparency International.
See
also an excellent set of links to Native
American resources online.
Global Ethics Resources:
Heritage
Foundation, Wall Street Journal,
The 2003 Index
of Economic Freedom Interactive Edition
The Organization for Economical
Co-operation and Development (OECD) has an extensive
"International
Regulation Database" about its member countries'
business regulation.
An
extensive directory of resources complied by the US Environmental
Protection Agency: Resources
for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices
A Directory of People, Organizations and Web Sites Version.
See also some intriguing research into globalization and
culture out of UNESCO: World
Culture Report
International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Organizational Ethics:
Proceedings
of the Oct 28, 1999 Roundtable on Organizational Ethics
Halifax Nova Scotia Canada
An excellent source of articles and online resources on
organizational sentencing from the United States Sentencing
Commission can be found at http://www.ussc.gov/training/educat.htm.
Look under: Sentencing of Organizations. See also an excellent
article explaining the value of the FSGO approach for foreign
organizations. European
Institute for Business Ethics
For an explanation of the Australian Criminal Code approach
to corporate liability, which looks primarily at corporate
culture, see the treatment in European
Institute for Business Ethics, the Andersen
Legal Corporate Advisor, and Australian
Criminal Code (Criminal Code, Part 2.5, Division 12,
Section 12.3(2) (c and d) pdf. pp. 39-41).
An excellent source for the current compliance requirements
in health care and other organizational ethics approaches
to organizational ethics can be found at Home
Page for HHS Compliance. Because the federal
government's involvement in health care is so ubiquitous,
and because health care is a substantial part of the U.S.
economy, compliance models developed here may serve as models
for other industries over time.
For a model integrating biomedical ethics and organizational
ethics. See Integrating
Health Care Ethics.
Compliance programs are a growth industry: compare and
contrast Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
with the Model
Compliance Plan for Clinical Libraries (see also the
Health
Care Financing Administration's clarification letter);
Model
Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals; Model
Compliance Plan for Hospices,and Nursing
Facilities, (See also letter
urging self-disclosure).
A source of
articles and links about ethics, including organizational
ethics. See also the Ethics
Resource Center and the website for the newsletter:
Ethical
Management, which has sample articles from the newsletter
and links.
An industry-wide approach to effective Corporate Responsibility
Programs is the Defense Industry Initiative to be found
at http://www.dii.org/.
See also, its links to sites of interest. http://www.dii.org/links/links.html.
For an excellent discussion of director liability and best
practices, see the statement of Kathleen Gibson, Chairman,
Corporate Practices Committee American Society of Corporate
Secretaries, December 9, 1998.
http://www.ascs.org/flash16c.html.
An interesting series of articles on organizational ethics
in health care can be found at: http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic8/intro.htm
For whistleblowing resources.
See also the Toronto Stock Exchange on Corporate
Governance.
For an e-mailed copy of the Report of the ERC Fellows Program
Subcommittee on Employee Confidentiality, contact
us.
For an excellent resource for organizational
values statements and ethics codes, see the Center
for the Study of Ethics in the Professions: Codes of Ethics
Online Project. One of the most intriguing such statements
is the 1947
Prospectus for Sony, which is discussed in Collins &
Porras' work, Built to Last.
Another excellent resource is the Minnesota
Center for Corporate Responsibility.
For general management
theory.
For ethics & policy news from around the
world, go to our perspectives page.
Environmental
Ethics:
For
an interesting discussion of Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic"
and its implications, see the article
by Laura Westra.
Global Anti-Corruption Efforts
Click
here for anti-corruption resources
Applied Ethics Resources:
An
excellent listing of the major sites for applied ethics
maintained by the University of British Columbia. http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/
A source dedicated to issues of electronic privacy. http://www.EPIC.org/
A source dedicated to the ethics of journalism can be found
at: http://www.spj.org/ethics/news.htm
For an excellent gateway to broader philosophical sites,
see: http://www.erraticimpact.com/
For regularly updated ethics and policy news from around
the world, see our Perspectives Page.
General reference; Refdesk;
Britannica.
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