Why an Ethics Program?; How to Organize Ethics as a Program; Principles of Ethics; Strategies for Fostering an Ethical Organization; Adopt the Goal of Implementing an Ethics Program; Establish an Ethics Committee and Assign Operational Responsibility to an Ethics Officer; Adopt a Code of Ethics; Make the Ethics Program Visible; Establish a Reporting Mechanism; Conduct an Ethical Analysis; Consi...

Every day engineers develop inventive, resourceful solutions to fix the newly discovered problems in society. Yet with every implemented decision comes benefits and repercussions. Engineers must understand both the national code of ethics and the code of ethics specific to their occupation in order to ensure that their proposed solution does not violate any rights protected within these ethical...

Introduction Corporate codes of ethics are one of several influenc es on business ethics within and across cultures. In a model that goes beyond philosophically-based ethics, Stajkovic and Luthans (1 997) use social-cognitive theory as a springboard to identify factors influe ncing business ethics standards and conduct. They propose that a person’s perception of ethical sta ndards and subsequen...

An Ethics Opinion reflects the interpretation or application of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics by the Ethics Committee. This interpretation or application by the Ethics Committee is in response to a specific ethics issue facing the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or Nutrition and Dietetics T...

medical ethics has a long history worldwide, and the move towards a transcultural ethics must be based on an appreciation of the history that has produced the present relationships. it is often thought that medical ethics history has begun at the time of hippocrates, however it is much older. it is clear that various cultures such as babylonia, ancient egypt, greece, and the persians have attem...