The Effectiveness of an Ethics Program Creating an effective compliance program can be difficult are there many different areas to be covered. Jessica Bejarano is the chief ethics and compliance officer for PAE, a provider of integrated global mission services based in Arlington, Virginia. Bejarano, covers some of these topics in the article she wrote on effective compliance. Bejarano states that all companies should have a compliance program to help guide their employees if an issue or situation should arise (2015). Having an ethics program that employees can look to for advice if they so happen to come upon a specific situation. The gold standard that is look to be succeeded can be interpreted in different ways by the diversity of
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In this article, Blodgette, the author, goes into detail about when laws stop and ethics begin. As they might be inter related for the majority of any ethically demanding situation, there are times when the law fails to be specific enough to deem where ethics should be the deciding factor. Laws are said to be more general or wide ranged to cover different aspects at the same time. Ethics falls into a more specific categories as ethics become an integral part of any situation. “Such a sharp distinction between law and business ethics may lead to the conclusion that there is little if any relationship between them,” says Blodgette …show more content…
Having an ethics program as a part of your firms’ codes and compliance greatly reduces the instances of unethical issues occurring (Kaptein, 2015). “An ethics or compliance program can be described as the formal organizational control system designed to impede unethical behavior,” states Kaptein (2015). Even though ethics programs are instituted worldwide there is little evidence to prove of its effectiveness to help avoid or handle unethical issues (Kaptein, 2015). There has been no academic studies supporting the success that includes multiple components of an ethics program (Kaptein, 2015). Because ethics programs are made up of different criteria for different situations, researching a multitude of factors would be beneficial to view how well the program is working (Kaptein,
In this article, Blodgette, the author, goes into detail about when laws stop and ethics begin. As they might be inter related for the majority of any ethically demanding situation, there are times when the law fails to be specific enough to deem where ethics should be the deciding factor. Laws are said to be more general or wide ranged to cover different aspects at the same time. Ethics falls into a more specific categories as ethics become an integral part of any situation. “Such a sharp distinction between law and business ethics may lead to the conclusion that there is little if any relationship between them,” says Blodgette …show more content…
Having an ethics program as a part of your firms’ codes and compliance greatly reduces the instances of unethical issues occurring (Kaptein, 2015). “An ethics or compliance program can be described as the formal organizational control system designed to impede unethical behavior,” states Kaptein (2015). Even though ethics programs are instituted worldwide there is little evidence to prove of its effectiveness to help avoid or handle unethical issues (Kaptein, 2015). There has been no academic studies supporting the success that includes multiple components of an ethics program (Kaptein, 2015). Because ethics programs are made up of different criteria for different situations, researching a multitude of factors would be beneficial to view how well the program is working (Kaptein,