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International Corporate Ethics (Ethikos) International Corporate Ethics (Ethikos) November/December 2001 - By C. Lee Essrig. An International Management System Standard For Business Conduct At present, no internationally recognized standard exists to manage organizational ethics, compliance, and business conduct programs. That could soon change. The Ethics Officer Association (EOA) is exploring the feasibility of developing a business conduct management system standard (MSS) through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) process. Such a management system standard would be mutually compatible with the management system standards ISO 9000 for quality and ISO 14000 for the environment. It would be a practical way for organizations around the world to integrate business ethics into their operations. It would define business conduct and would include the means to measure and credibly demonstrate compliance with the standard. The management system standard could be a tool for any organization to use, among other things, as a benchmark in measuring and demonstrating the effectiveness of its business conduct program and/or as a standard for business partners to meet. The voluntary standard would allow for self-declaration. The EOA plans to take every possible step to ensure that the management system standard is not intended for third-party certification. History of the initiative Since the mid-1980s, the regulatory environment in the United States has encouraged the development of internal business conduct programs. In 1991, the U.S. Sentencing Commission promulgated guidelines to be used in the sentencing of organizations in federal courts. These guidelines quickly became the model for internal business conduct programs in the U.S. Since 1991, an increasing number of U.S.-based organizations have established business conduct programs. However, for the last several years, EOA members have been interested in finding new and better tools to measure the effectiveness of such programs and to have standards against which to benchmark. Full Article: http://www.singerpubs.com/ethikos/html/essrig.html |
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