Morals and Ethics are nothing new to most Americans. We have many codes of conduct in place for various situational environments. While these codes are not all necessarily federal or state laws, they are still obligatory, and consequence carrying. This article will bring to light those responsibilities, and weigh those responsibilities against their consequences. Further it will provide an outlet for reviewing the requirements of conduct in a given position and validate those requirements for the public record.
We can find Moral and Ethical codes of conduct everywhere we look. Each of these codes carries with it a unique set of situational and professional consequences. It is the opinion of this author that by applying these codes of conduct, bringing them to a high level of public awareness, and enforcing their guidelines, Americans can avoid the pitfalls of corporate economics, religious controversy, and political scandals we have been stumbling upon as a nation for decades.
Merriam-Webster Definition of Ethics:
1 plural but singular or plural in construction: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation
2 a: a set of moral principles or values b: a theory or system of moral values
Corporate Ethics
The Business RoundTable, an institute established for the purpose of categorizing and displaying corporate ethics, has a marvelous page put together showing different codes of conduct adopted by the founding CEO