The Ethical Company

Abstract

Organizing ethics in a systematic way, puts at least three questions to us: what is the current situation, what is the desired situation, and how can the desired situation be achieved? Brigley (1995) calls the discrepancy between the desired and the current moral situation the ethics gap. An ethics audit is a systematic approach for identifying the ethics gap. This chapter will consider the definition of an ethics audit and the elements of such an audit. One important element of the current and desired moral situation is the ethical content. The ethical content is the extent to which we can label a corporation ethical or moral. Section two of this chapter provides a definition of the ethical content of a corporation. This chapter closes with an overview of different examination methods, including the method which illuminates the ethical content.

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