Ethics consulting is our core, full-time business. EthicScan has twelve years of experience in assisting businesses, industry associations, governments and not-for-profits to develop, update and implement a full-service ethics program, including an ethics code, statements of responsibility to stakeholders, codes of conduct and integrity-based training.
Resources
- an extensive library of ethics codes, dilemmas and best practice policies for companies, professions, departments and industry associations
- ethics training materials, both print and video
- in-house researchers who can benchmark a company, an organization, or an association's practices against others
- experience in planning and conducting confidential staff and stakeholder interviews
- ethics audit protocols for public and private sector clients
- texts of responsible business practice documents and codes from Canada, the United States, the U.K., and elsewhere
Services
- design and conduct triple bottom line (TBL) ethics or social audits
- develop ethics codes and sustainable development management plans
- reinforce ethics codes, business conduct committees, and assurance policies
- develop best practice programs to enhance corporate reputation, inspire consumer confidence, and display leading edge citizenship and sustainable practices
- prepare customized training resources including case studies, manuals, and videos
- help translate corporate values into a full ethics program
- design customized, dilemma resolving, organizational case studies
- prepare ethical partnership and procurement policies and assurance reports
- lead values-clarifying seminars and exercises for staff
- advise on a number of effective alternatives to conventional codes
- develop and operate an ombudsperson, tele-advisory or related reinforcement program
Results
- a state-of-the-art ethics code, including a possible credo, and statements of responsibility to major stakeholders
- help translate corporate values into a full service ethics assurance programs
- helpful internal and external communications programs
- customized "sniff tests" to empower all staff in making decisions
- stakeholder participation programs that are designed to influence and reinforce organizational practices
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