Practical Ethics


One of the best ways to help promote a corporate or business-wide awareness of business ethics (and perhaps to help prepare your organization for entry in the Rochester Business Ethics Award competition) is to stimulate a year-round discussion of ethics at the grassroots level – that is, among and between business owners, officers, directors, managers, unit heads and other employees.

To help you get started, the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation offers these brief essays for your continued use. Each contains thoughts and observations on a particular concept or theme related to business ethics, as well as questions and discussion points.

Use these essays at any level - from meetings of shareholders, directors and senior management to the monthly and weekly meetings of individual divisions, departments and units - to drive discussion. Download them, distribute them and make a discussion of ethics a recurring item in your meeting agendas.

RABEF’s belief is that when employees and managers begin to talk about ethics in business, talk turns into action and everyone benefits – your company, your customers and colleagues, your community.

Extra-value: As you prepare your company for entry to the Rochester Business Ethics Award, use these essays as guidelines for the types of materials and supporting documentation you might include in your entry notebook.


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