Corporate Values & Ethics

1. Introduction : Ethical orientation is not theory, not simply a formulation of ideas, but a practice undertaken with understanding Management, especially under pressure, seeks understanding in shorthand. Impatient for results, executives want workable models that have worked in other places to apply to what are assume to be similar situations in their own companies. There is of course much to learn by exploring the experiences of others and there is a rich validity to many of …

…in North America, Europe and Asia have suffered the severe dislocation of reengineering and downsizing in the name of enhancing corporate competitiveness. But in some cases, senior managers have only squandered much of that hard was efficiency in unscrupulous - often illegal often immoral - payouts, perks and practices while it would be grossly unfair to paint all business people as crocks, it would be equally unwise to deny that business is sometimes itself crooked.