Why is ethics important to organizations?    What are the characteristics of an ethical organization?    How can we audit the ethics of an organization?   What  measures and activities stimulate the ethical development of  organizations?       This book addresses these questions.   It is easier to say that ethics is necessary than to tell how to  organize ethics. This book provides a fundamental and coherent vision  on how ethics can be organized in a focused way. This study examines  the assumptions for organizing ethics, the pitfalls and phases of such  a process, the parts of an ethics audit and the great variety of  measures.   The methods and insights illustrated in this book are based partially  on practical research. One of these methods, the Ethics Thermometer,  was based on more than 150 interviews at various organizations. The  Ethics Thermometer has been applied in a great variety of profit and  not-for-profit organizations in order to measure an organization's  perceived context, conduct and consequences.   This book will be important to scholars in the field of business  ethics, as well as to managers and practitioners. For scholars, this  study provides general knowledge about auditing and developing the  ethics of an organization. A summary is given of the criteria by which  the ethical content of an organization can be measured. For managers  and practitioners, this study provides concrete suggestions for  safeguarding and improving ethics within their organizations.

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