Gain practical guidance to tackle any ethical issues your company faces.
With these easy-to-follow-guides, you'll have the processes and ideas you need to build a compliance program, avoid workplace discrimination, and mentor future leaders.
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Principled leadership is about creating and implementing a focus on ethical practices and culture for business success. Principled leaders motivate their employees to do their best work and consider ethical implications of their decisions and actions. These are unique leaders because they help their organizations be successful by championing and educating employees to consistently engage in ethical practices for the benefit of all stakeholders.
Five Discussion Points
Ethical organizational cultures are critical for business success. Ethical culture is a system of shared beliefs, attitudes and behavioral norms that represent an organization’s ethical principles and standards. Ethical cultures support an organization’s overarching purpose and subsequent compliance practices to insure successful relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and the community.
Keep Values Alive
For successful businesses, compliance is about more than following the rules or regulations. Successful businesses understand that ethical business practices are key to distinguishing themselves from the competition. Ethical businesses prioritize compliance as the right thing to do because a strong ethics and compliance program also creates a shared vision of purpose and what success means. Whatever the size of the business, ethics and compliance programs build a base to grow from.
Distinguish Your Company
Strong ethical decision-making ability is important for every employee in every kind of business in order to have practices and a culture that demand more than just economic results. Ethical decision making means doing things the right way by paying attention to moral values like responsibility and fairness, trust and good citizenship to avoid significant business failures.
Successful Business Relationships– Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Business ethics are the moral and ethical beliefs that guide the values, behaviors, and decisions of a business organization and the individuals with the organization. Business ethics is the foundation to building a strong ethical culture, principled leaders, and an organization focused on more than just the bottom line.
Reputation is everything in business. An organization’s reputation as an ethical company has value reaching far beyond a balance sheet.
