This module is designed to provide a template for groups working on CECO (Corporate Ethics Compliance Officers) reports. This activity is being used in classes in business ethics, business-government-society, and corporate leadership social reponsibility at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. It is designed to integrate the modules on moral ecologies, corporate social responsibility, codes of ethics, and corporate governance. This module is being developed as a part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF-SES-0551779.
This module has been designed to bring together the following modules responding to the AACSB four ethics themes, corporate leadership, ethical decision-making, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance. The links in this module tie it directly to EAC Toolkit modules that will help in preparation of the CECO report. The include the following:
- Type or paste the content directly into the appropriate section
- Socio-Technical Systems in Professional Decision Making (m14025)- Developing a Statement of Values (m14319)
- Pirate Code for Engineering Ethics (m13849)- Moral Ecologies in Corporate Governance (m17353)
- Three Views of Corporate Social Responsibility (m17318)- Different Approaches to Corporate Governance (m17367)
These modules have links of their own that will prove invaluable for this activity. An exampleis the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado; this link connects to a search
engine for finding codes of ethics and corporate social responsibility programs.The media file below provides a generic poster presentation template geared toward this assignment.
Template for ceco poster presentation
This media file provides a template of the poster presentation required for ADME 3405, the course "Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility." The different sections can be filled in by preparing PowerPoint slides, pressing control + Print Screen when in presentation viewing mode, and copy-pasting into appropriate part of poster template slide.
Introduction
You are the CECO of your company. Being familiar with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, you have been charged with developing a comprehensive ethics program that includes (1) a socio-technical system study, (2) a corporate code of ethics, (3) an ethics training program for new and ongoing employees, (4) an ethics hotline or some other reporting mechanism, (5) a CSR (corporate social responsibility) challenge, and (6) recruitment and leadership strategies for implementing ethics. Your report will begin with an executive summary and end with a concluding section that discusses implementation issues and needs.
What you need to know …
Sections of ceco corporate ethics report
Executive Summary (1 page)
Socio-Technical System Table plus written explanation. (3-5 pages)
Corporate Code of Ethics that provides core values, a description of each value, and how you plan to disseminate and implement your code. (3-5)
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Challenge
Description of Ethics Training Program including activities and required resources (3-5 pages)
Recruitment and Leadership Strategies for Implementing Ethics into your organization (3-5 pages)
A Conclusion that includes a summary of the report, a time frame for implementing your ethics program, and an inventory of program needs and resources (1 page)
