Monday, April 17, 2006
Buildings blocks for an ethical organisation
Attracta Lagan is the Director of Corporate Citizenship and Ethics at KPMG in Sydney. Her latest book, 3D Ethics: Implementing Workplace Values provides a guide on building ethical organisations. Here is an excerpt from the chat we had today:
SOX FIRST: How do you construct an ethical corporation?
ATTRACTA LAGAN: It's something that has to happen with the values of the organisation. You see it in companies like Levi Strauss, Johnson & Johnson and Body Shop. It's part of their value system. It should also be part of the performance management system in each organisation. At Body Shop, for example, managers are required to give staff time off for volunteering. But it has to be part of the performance management to make it work.
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