Restoring the Trust and Confidence of Students and Stakeholders In order for the NCAA leadership to regain the trust and confidence of students and stakeholders, they must change the organizational culture and hire an ethics officer to enforce the ethics programs. First, changing the organizational culture is paramount to regaining the trust of stakeholders. Stakeholders must understand that the behaviors and incompetence of leadership that led to the stated scandals will be changed. Moreover, the culture change must align with an effective ethics program. However, changing an organizational culture is not an easy task. …show more content…
Williford (2013) contends “at its core, an effective program protects an organization by detecting and preventing improper conduct and promoting adherence to the organization 's legal and ethical obligations” (para. 1). Internal accounting practices are typically headed by an ethics officer. An ethics officer creates ethics polices and enforces rules and regulations. The ethics officer enforces an organization’s code of conduct and code of ethics. A code of conduct and code of ethics define acceptable behavior and includes a statement of values (Ferrell et al., 2015). Moreover, the organization can conduct a cultural audit to check for ethical compliance. A cultural audit consists of bringing in a third-party to assess the organization’s values. The audit can help the organization determine if the organizational culture is at risk for ethical conflict (Ferrell, 2015). Internal accounting practices are an excellent way to prevent future incidents from occurring at the stated