What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code

Read Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code? (Found below) then answer these following questions from the text:

Describe how the title of a company’s ethics document affects your attitude about the content?. Do you find one title more attractive than another?

Describe the message that the title “code of conduct” conveys?. Does it reflect the purpose of the document to provide employee guidance on expected conduct?

Propose creative titles for ethics codes for a pharmaceutical company and a restaurant. (Gonzalez-Padron, 2015).

Identify two other company ethics documents and share the titles of their ethics documents (consider your own organization or one that you are familiar with for this question).

Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code?

The document that summarizes the company’s ethical and legal standards can go by many names, including:

Code of conduct;

Code of ethics;

Code of business conduct;

Code of ethical and legal standards;

Ethics guide;

Code of employee conduct; or

Standards of professional and business conduct.

The title of the document can create a brand for the company’s ethics and compliance. The content becomes relevant to the workforce when the code ties the ethics and compliance program to the company’s mission or business strategy. The title can make that connection and serve as a theme throughout the document.

Consider these titles for company code of conduct documents:

Setting Our Sights High (Bausch & Lomb Incorporated);

Follow the Right Road (The Auto Club Group); and

Inside the Lines (Nike).