Ethical Priorities

Ethics in organizations have been in the news so much in the last eight or nine years.  Perhaps I didn’t pay attention before Enron or perhaps the media didn’t pay as much attention, but it seems that there is a new corporate scandal about every month or two.  Because of recent legislation, more and more companies are conducting ethics training, but that isn’t new.  Enron executives had all participated in ethics training.  The question is not knowing the right thing to do—it’s prioritizing the right thing to do.  It’s making ethics an important part of performance evaluations.  It’s making honesty and integrity an important part of the bottom line.