Consider the issues
Here you can find some ethical issues that might arise, including practical examples and scenarios. You can use them as a basis to design your own code of ethics and to help your employees’ understanding of the ethical implications of each issue.
Your code of ethics is a good place to cover the main ethical issues that your business is facing. This is also something you can provide as part of the ethical due diligence put in place to assess partners' and suppliers’ standards of behaviour. In some instances, a dedicated separate policy might be needed, to set out specific guidelines for staff and other stakeholders.
What issues should be covered?
If some issues are especially important to your business, you are encouraged to address them in more depth. If you operate in the building and construction sector, for instance, health and safety concerns will need attention. On the other hand, if you are a service provider, issues related to the fair treatment of customers will be more prominent.
Where laws and regulations are present, it is important that employees know and apply them in their work. However, there are cases where it is not possible to find clear rules to apply and, therefore, we need to use our own judgement to decide what is the right course of action. The information provided on this page is intended to help that process.
