4.3 Corporate ethics compliance officer report  (Page 2/3)

What you will do ...

Executive summary

Socio-technical system

• This section will provide both a table and written description to help your reader understand the socio-technical system in which your company works and which provides the ethical and social challenges to which your program will respond.
• For information on how to compose a STS table and the different frames covered refer to module m14025, Socio-Technical Systems in Professional Decision-Making. The table for Burger Man provides frames that will be most relevant to this module but there are also other STS tables adopted for use in power engineering and engineering practice in Puerto Rico.
• Your written analysis should summarize and explore in more detail the STS issues that you are addressing in your corporate ethics plan. These would include compliance issues as well as fields in which your corporation's aspirations could be realized.

Corporate code of ethics

• Your job here is to write a code of ethics for your corporation emphasizing the key value aspirations and CSR challenges that your are targeting in your ethics program. Your code should include...
• The values that form your corporation's highest and central commitments.
• A description or profile of each value. See the Developing a Statement of Values module for more on this.
• How your values apply to both the corporation's stakeholders and to its key CSR challenges.
• You should be clear about the function your code is playing both within your ethics plan and within the corporate organization. Six key functions are (1) to educate, (2) to foster an ethical dialogue, (3) to discipline employees, (4) to support employees in their efforts to realize the corporation's core commitments/values, (5) to communicate these commitments/values to employees and other stakeholders, and (6) to serve as a public testament of the key ethical and value commitments that define the integrity of your organization.

Ethics training program

• This section details how you educate employees on the key components of your ethics program including the core ethical and value commitments. It should also provide means for getting employee buy-in for the ethics program as well as components that help employees with special ethical challenges. It should include the following:
• How you plan to educate employees on the company's code of ethics.
• How the company's core ethical values and principles should be integrated in the company's key operations including setting policy, strategic planning and decision-making.
• How your ethics program addresses your company's moral ecology. (Is it finance-, customer-, or quality driven? How do employees develop successful moral careers and modes of ethical advocacy within each of these companies? How does your ethics training program support this process?)