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Use of Codes of Ethics in
Business: 2007 survey & analysis of trends
This new publication sets out the findings of the fifth IBE
survey of FTSE350 companies on how they use and implement
their codes of ethics. The Institute has been conducting this
survey since 1995 and so can chart trends and changes in the
way companies use their codes of ethics to embed their values
within company culture. There are some significant changes
over the last three years. It shows:the ways in which companies
seek to maximise the effectiveness of their codes; trends
in the rationale for codes; the ethical issues perceived as
most important for business and how codes address climate
change issues. The report provides a guide to managers wishing
to understand current practice and mechanisms for implementing
and embedding ethical policies and accompanying codes.
Order a copy of the 2007 survey and
get a copy of the 2004 Survey free.
Publication date: 6th March 2008 Price
£20 ISBN
0 9549288 6 5
Does Business Ethics Pay? Revisited:
The value of ethics training
Do companies that actively attempt to embed their ethical
values into business practice enjoy stronger financial performance
as a result?
This report describes research comparing the financial performance
of FTSE 350 companies which have a business ethics training
programme with those simply declaring a commitment to ethical
values. The findings, for the five years 2001-2005, are consistent
with previous IBE research, Does Business
Ethics Pay?,suggesting that conducting business with integrity
and fairness is not only the right thing to do, it is also
good for the bottom line.
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- REVISITED AND GET DOES BUSINESS ETHICS
PAY FREE!
Publication date: 9th July 2007 Price:
£25 ISBN
0 9549288 5 7
Ethical Due Diligence: An introduction
and guide
Cultural fit and ethical compatibility are increasingly recognised
as important elements of successful business relationships,
from joint ventures to mergers and acquisitions. In this report
by David Lascelles, a systematic framework for identifying
integrity risk is suggested to encourage organisations to
employ Ethical Due Diligence (EDD) alongside financial and
legal due diligence. Ethical Due Diligence is based
on interviews with companies and experts. It describes the
process of EDD and shows by means of case studies how it is
being applied and shows how it can be deployed to support
business decisions
Publication date: 17th May 2007 Price:
£25 ISBN
0 9549288 4 9
IBE Good practice Guide 1: Speak
Up Procedures
The IBE Good Practice Guides offer practical assistance and
guidance for making ethics policies and programmes effective.
Speak Up Procedures is the first in the Good Practice series.
Drawing on the experiences of international and UK companies,
it outlines why organisations need to encourage and support
staff to make enquiries on ethical issues, raise concerns
and report misconduct; provides guidance on what to consider
when establishing a Speak Up policy and the procedures to
implement it and suggests how to operate the policy effectively,
from providing training to handling and investigating calls
to Speak Up lines.
Publication date: 15th March 2007 Price:
£15 ISBN
0 9549288 3 0
Living Up To Our Values: Developing
ethical assurance
The premise of this report by Nicole Dando and Walter Raven
is that an ethical assurance programme will provide boards
with that confidence and assist in safeguarding the integrity,
reputation and sustainability of their organisation. It provides
a practical framework for approaching the assurance of ethical
performance against an organisation's own code of ethics.
The report will assist executive and non-executive directors
understand the need for and benefits of ethical assurance
and consider whether the assurance they have in place is sufficient
and robust.
The practical guidance is addressed to those overseeing the
assurance of a board and those providing an assurance opinion.
It is intended as an aid to the development of good practice
in a field that is still developing.
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AND GET A COPY OF DEMONSTRATING CORPORATE
VALUES FREE!
Publication date: 14th December 2006 Price
£25 ISBN
0 9539517 8 2
Making
Business Ethics Work: the foundations of effective embedding
Simon Webley examines why is there an apparent failure
by many businesses to incorporate ethical values into the
day-to-day decisions of employees and what can be done to
ensure ethics policies and codes lead to higher standards
of business behaviour. This report draws on the experience
of UK companies, recent surveys and research; offers practical
suggestions for improving the efficacy of ethical programmes
and will be valuable to organisations wanting to overcome
the barriers to implementing an effective ethics policy
Publication date: 26th October 2006 Price
£25 ISBN
0 9549288 2 2
SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE
UK: business ethics and procurement practice
Laura Spence examines the complexities of supplier relationships
and ethical procurement practice in the UK. The report explores
how companies can achieve fair relations with their suppliers
and particularly considers issues raised in relationships
between large organisations and small and medium sized suppliers.
Three case studies, from Camelot, Waitrose and Toyota, help
draw out the issues and good practice approaches. Guidance
on good practice is offered for suppliers and customers alike.
Publication date: 21st September 2006 Price
£25 ISBN
0 9549288 1 4
ETHICS AT WORK:
a national survey
This report by Simon Webley and Polly Dryden details the first
national IBE Ethics at Work Survey. It shows how fulltime
staff and management regard their own behavior and that of
their colleagues and makes comparisons with Management Today/KPMG
Forensic survey of managers in 2000 and a US
ERC employee survey in 2003. It presents the views of
workers on the support they are given in 'doing the right
thing' at work, suggests which employees are likely to be
'the most ethical' and demonstrates to all employers, the
benefit of surveying their staff on ethical issues and conduct,
and the need for clearer ethical guidance.
Publication date: 27th June 2005 Price
£25 ISBN
0 9549288 0 6
THE
ETHICS OF INFLUENCE: political donations and lobbying
The Ethics of Influence
by David Lascelles analyses current corporate approaches to the challenges
in this increasingly controversial area and sets out the pressures on companies
to seek political influence. It offers guidance to business on good practice and
is drawn from interviews with senior business people in the UK, US and Europe.
Publication date: 9th June 2005 Price
£20 ISBN
0 9539517 9 0 SETTING
THE TONE: ethical business leadership
Philippa Foster Back examines
ethical leadership. Business ethics will never be taken seriously unless the ethical
tone is set from the top. Leadership is essential to business ethics, as ethical
qualities are essential to good leadership. Setting the Tone:
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demonstrates that business leaders should consider ethical competence as a core
part of their business acumen
• provides guidance to those wishing to
build a culture of trust and accountability and strengthen the ethical aspirations
of their organisation
• includes interviews with business leaders offering
practical insights into ethical leadership issues
Publication date:
17th March 2005 Price
£25 ISBN
0 9539517 7 4 CORPORATE USE OF CODES OF ETHICS:
2004 survey
This report by Simon Webley and Martin Le Jeune reveals
the findings of the fourth IBE survey sent to the CEOs of FTSE 250 companies with
codes. It shows: the ways in which companies seek to maximise the effectiveness
of their codes; trends in the rationale for codes; the ethical issues perceived
as most important for business.
The report, including two practical business
case studies, provides a guide to managers wishing to understand current practice
and mechanisms for implementing and embedding codes of ethics.
Publication
date: February 2005 ISBN
0 9539517 6 5 Price
£20
TAKING THE TEMPERATURE: ethical supply
chain management
Many companies are now grappling with the complexities
of ethical supply chain management. How much progress is being made and is life
improving for workers?
Taking the temperature assesses the way companies
are developing ethical trading practices and explores the issues of ethical supply
chain management. It looks at emerging best practice and highlights case study
examples from a range of companies and countries. This report, by Louise Jamison
and Hilary Murdoch of Impactt Limited updates the 2000 publication Where
did that come from? It provides companies with practical guidance on how to
tackle the ethical management of their supply chain.
Publication date:
5th July 2004 ISBN
0 9539517 5 8 Price
£25 DEVELOPING
A CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS: a guide to best practice, including the IBE Illustrative
Code of Business Ethics
Producing a code of business ethics helps companies
to understand and address ethical issues across their organisations.Codes offer
invaluable guidance for employees on how to behave and how to make positive decisions
in complex circumstances.This publication: provides a practical and comprehensive
guide to developing and implementing a code of business ethics; analyses the business
case for codes; identifies best corporate practice and explains the steps
needed to produce and maintain an effective code of business ethics; encompasses
the updated IBE Illustrative Code of Business Ethics and includes examples
of different approaches to corporate code
October 2003 ISBN
0 9539517 4 X Price
£20
DOES BUSINESS ETHICS
PAY? - Ethics & Financial Performance
Behaving ethically
is what you do because it is the right thing to do. Nevertheless, 'does business
ethics pay?' is an important question. The public perception of business behaviour
is consistently low, fuelled as it is by high profile examples of unethical and
illegal conduct. This report by Simon Webley and Elise More provides evidence
to company chairmen and Chief Executive Officers as well as the general public,
that conducting business with integrity and fairness are not only morally right,
but are also worthwhile. The performance of a sample from FTSE 350 companies with
an available code of ethics was compared to a similar sample of those without.
Four financial measures were used and the data covered the period 1997-2001. The
annual list of Britain's Most Admired Companies and the SERM socio/ethical risk
reduction rating were also used in the research.
April 2003 ISBN 0 9539517
3 1 Price £25 DEMONSTRATING CORPORATE VALUES
- Which Standard for Your Company?
This publication, by Deborah Smith
of EQ Management, reviews the plethora of social and ethical reporting standards
on offer to companies. It sets out the benefits and costs of the major standards
and provides companies with a means of assessing and choosing them. The emphasis
is on providing a practical guide of tools, checklists and experience to enable
companies to choose the standard that suits them best.
ISBN 0 9539517 2 1
Price £25 ETHICAL BUSINESS - Corporate
Use of Codes of Conduct
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New survey: Use of Codes of Ethics
in Business: 2007 Survey and Analysis of Trends published
March 2008
This publication by Martin Le Jeune and Simon Webley
follows up the survey included in "Company Use of Codes
of Conduct" and asks the following questions:
Why do companies have a code? How do companies
use them? What are the current issues? How can the intranet be used to train staff?
What is an ethical audit?
It also contains case studies of the experience
of BP plc and CDC plc.
ISBN 0 9539517 1 5 Price £20
RISKY BUSINESS - Towards best practice
in managing reputation risk
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This publication explores the way corporations manage the
risks to their reputations. It explores the various pressures
on boards of companies to take this matter seriously and includes
a number of case studies. The author, Jenny Rayner of Abbey
Consulting, suggests ten components of an effective policy
for managing reputation risks.
ISBN 0 9539517 07 Price £25
WHERE
DID THAT COME FROM? - A study of ethical issues in the supply chain
SOLD
OUT! New updated publication "Taking the Temperature"
published 5th July 2004
This report introduces and analyses the key
ethical concerns within supply chain management. Pressures from the media, campaigners,
customers, government trade unions and other stake holders are encouraging companies
to take responsibility for the welfare of workers in their supply chains around
the world. This report, produced by Rosey Hurst & Mary Arnesen of Impactt
Limited examines the approaches of leading multinational companies to show how
companies not already involved in these issues might begin to work within their
own supply chains. It provides a step by step guide to getting to grips with this
issue and describes the current best practice of leaders in the field.
ISBN
0 9524020 9 2 Price £20.00 PRIORITIES,
PRACTICE & ETHICS IN SMALL FIRMS
This report includes a survey
of 100 small firms in the UK by Laura Spence that investigates their social and
ethical concerns and in what way these differ from those of larger companies.
The survey shows that owner-managers run their businesses in ways which are consistent
with their own values and principles. It shows that employees relationships are
key to the success of small firms and includes ten practical rules for SME good
business conduct.
ISBN 0 9524020 8 4 Price £20.00 THE
TEACHING OF BUSINESS ETHICS
This survey and report by Julian Cummins fills
a serious gap in research into education and training in ethics in UK business
schools. It finds that while it is taught in some form at about half the postgraduate
and professional institutions, it is still a "Cinderella" subject. The
report has a list of how 105 business schools classify their teaching of business
ethics.
ISBN 0 9524020 7 6 Price £20.00 COMPANY USE OF CODES
OF BUSINESS CONDUCT
SOLD OUT!! New survey: Corporate
Use of Codes of Ethics published 24th February 2005
This publication
by Martin Le Jeune and Simon Webley follows up the survey included in "Applying
Codes of Business Ethics". It shows that the majority of companies have a
procedure to update their codes, publish them internally and initiate them at
senior management level, but more needs to be done to involve staff with in house
training. It also contains 3 significant case studies from Lloyds TSB, C&A
and Standard Chartered Bank.
ISBN 0 9524020 6 8 Price £15.00 ETHICAL
ASPECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - ISSUES FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES
The purpose
of this guide by Simon Rogerson is to inform senior executives and professionals
engaged in IT about the ethical issues raised in using computing and associated
technologies. Its complexity, adaptability and versatility, together with its
processing speed and relative cheapness, and other special characteristics all
contribute to the issues that need to be considered.
ISBN 0 9524020 4 1 Price
£20.00 CODES OF ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
A growing number of UK-based international companies are concerned about applying
their ethical standards and codes of ethics to their overseas operations. This
study by Simon Webley examines how ten multinational corporations approach the
problems. It also sets out the current guidelines given by some international
business organisations on the issue, as well as the approach of three companies.
ISBN 0 9524020 5 X Price £20.00 APPLYING CODES OF BUSINESS ETHICS
This fourth publication in the series by Simon Webley gives a survey of
best practice by leading companies in the use of codes of business ethics. It
contains five case studies from UK companies, and give 12 steps necessary for
a successful introduction of a code and making it part of the company culture.
ISBN 0 9524020 2 5 Price £18.00 EMPLOYEES' HEALTH &
ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICE
This is the second of IBE's publications on management
and the health of employees. Written by Dr Jenny Firth-Cozens, it gives the results
of a survey, and establishes what is the best practice in this field.
ISBN
0 9524020 1 7 Price £15.00 BENEFITING BUSINESS & THE
ENVIRONMENT
"Environmental initiatives can reduce costs and help
to improve profitability" - is the message of this carefully researched collection
of case studies. Over 40 companies have been interviewed about 70 environmental
initiatives. They include projects for saving energy and water, reducing waste,
increasing recycling and reducing the impact of transport.
ISBN 0 9524020
0 9 Price £24.00 CODES OF BUSINESS ETHICS - WHY COMPANIES
SHOULD DEVELOP THEM - AND HOW
SOLD OUT!! Updated publication
- Developing a code of business ethics.
This
check-list and illustrative code by Simon Webley gives a list of 62 subjects involving
business ethics, a code which can form the basis for any company to use and a
list of larger companies in the UK known to the Institute to have codes of business
ethics.
ISBN 0 9513671 9 6 Price £10.00 BUSINESS ETHICS
AND COMPANY CODES
SOLD OUT!! Updated publication - Developing
a code of business ethics.
A Report by Simon Webley which updates
the previous publication "Company Philosophies and Codes of Business Ethics".
It sets out the principal ways in which companies translate their ethical values
into practice through the promulgation of codes throughout their work force. It
draws on existing practice by leading companies and includes a short form code
which can be used as the basis for companies wishing to develop codes of their
own.
ISBN 0 9513671 7 X Price £15.00 MANAGEMENT AND
THE HEALTH OF EMPLOYEES
A Report on a Conference addressed by speakers
from two industries very different in size, one from BUPA and a Jesuit priest.
Some useful insights into the basic principles of how to manage people.
ISBN
0 9513671 6 1 Price £9.00 ETHICS, ENVIRONMENT AND THE COMPANY
This Guide for Effective Action was written by Tom Burke and Julie Hill
of the Green Alliance. It gives the results of replies from 82 companies to a
survey of their existing practices in this field and makes practical recommendations
for environmental management for adoption by businesses of every size and type.
ISBN 0 9513671 5 3 Price £10.00 TAKEOVERS - WHAT ETHICAL
CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD APPLY?
A Report on a conference on this difficult
and topical subject, which was addressed by the chairman of the Takeover Panel,
a former company chairman, a management consultant and a merchant banker.
ISBN 0 9513671 4 5 Price £7.50
PERSONAL DEBT - IS IT TOO MUCH
ENCOURAGED?
A Report on a conference on a very difficult and highly relevant
topic, affecting as it does the relationship between corporate lenders and private
borrowers. Speakers represented all sides of the argument.
ISBN 0 9513671
3 7 Price £7.50 BUSINESS AND SOCIETY - THE APPROACH OF THE
FAITHS
An Occasional Paper based on a Conference involving speakers from
the three religions which support the aims of the IBE - Christian, Muslim and
Jewish.
ISBN 0 9513671 2 9 Price £3.50 WHAT'S ALL THIS
ABOUT BUSINESS ETHICS?
An Occasional Paper by Neville Cooper, Founder
of the Institute of Business Ethics. The paper examines briefly some of the main
ethical issues and explains why the IBE was founded.
ISBN 0 9513671 1 0 Price
£2.95 COMPANY PHILOSOPHIES AND CODES OF BUSINESS ETHICS
This Guide by Simon Webley is based on a Conference on the subject run
by the IBE, following replies from 100 companies to a survey on existing practice.
It makes the case for such standards, discusses key subjects such as bribery,
use of privileged information and conflicts of interest. It includes a model statement
of business principles and an outline code as well as examples of existing codes.
ISBN 0 9513671 0 2 Price £7.50
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