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Communicating the ethos of codes of ethics in corporate Australia, 1995-2001: whose rights, whose responsibilities?

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posted on 2003-12-01, 00:00 authored by Greg WoodGreg Wood, Michael CallaghanMichael Callaghan
This paper considers the commitment to business ethics of the top 500 companies operating in the Australian private sector and communicates the results of a longitudinal study conducted from 1995 to 2001. Primary data was obtained (in 1995 and again in 2001) via a self-administered mail  questionnaire distributed to a census of these top 500 Australian  companies. This commitment of each company to their code of ethics was indicated and measured via a range of methods used by organizations to communicate the ethos of their codes to employees. Just as they were in  1995, it would appear that companies in 2001 still are good at ensuring that their rights are protected, but at the same time they do not seem to take on the responsibility to ensure that employees'' rights are just as well protected. This double standard leads to cynicism towards the current business ethics processes inherent in Australian companies.

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Journal

Employee responsibilities and rights journal

Volume

15

Issue

4

Pagination

209 - 221

Publisher

Plenum Press

Location

New York, N.Y.

ISSN

0892-7545

eISSN

1573-3378

Language

eng

Notes

Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2003, Plenum Publishing Corporation

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