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What Are The Four Items That You Think Are Necessary For Establishing An Ethical Culture

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List at least four items that you think are necessary in an organization for establishing an ethical culture, and expound on each item. Provide biblical support for your answer. Ruddell (2014), give items that are necessary in an organization for establishing an ethical culture. (Ruddell, 2014 p. 115-137). For the purposes of this discussion post four items will be addressed. These four items are as follows: 1st item- Establish your Code of Conduct In order to have an ethical culture in your organization that author suggests that you must have a code of conduct. The code of conduct sets the parameters that a business believes that are important to having the ethics “operationally defined” within the aspects of the organization. These “standards” are stated to set for the expectations of the employees and shareholders so that the company not only acts “ethically” but it seen by the public as “ethical.” 2nd item - Teaching the Code of Conduct …show more content…

(Ruddell, 2014 p. 181-183). Many businesses present their code of conduct to their employees as an addendum to their onboarding process. This procedure alone speaks to the process being mainly for liability reasons. However, if the company seeks to have the employees knowledgeable about the ethical procedures and guidelines then it is important to have this in the training portion of onboarding as well. If a company has a code of conduct but does not tell their employees that there are standards that must be followed it would be unethical to punish that employee if a violation was to

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