Corporate Ethics Officers And Government Ethics Administrators

Comparing Apples With Oranges or a Lesson to Be Learned

Bibliographic Data

ID11103258
AuthorsRobert W Smith (0000-0003-0438-3531, Clemson University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume34
Issue6
Pages632-652
Publication date2003-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdministration & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0095399702239168
OpenAlexW2041427388
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

As society enters the next millennium, ethics transgressions continue to make headlines. A Walker Research poll found 57% of public employees were aware of an ethical violation in the past 2 years. Similarly, an Ethics Officer Association-sponsored poll found that 48% of corporate employees admitted to unethical or illegal acts in 1996. Most governments have ethics boards or commissions, and corporations have ethics or compliance offices. Despite the existence of this ethics infrastructure, violations continue. What do these respective offices do? This article posits that there are important lessons to be learned by a cross-fertilization of knowledge between private sector ethics officers and public ethics administrators

Applied ethics · Business ethics · Compliance (psychology · Ethical code · Government (linguistics · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Officer · Political science · Private sector · Public relations · Public trust · Sociology · Ethics in Business and Education · Law · Psychology · Public Administration

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