Ethics & Policy Integration Centre

Commission to Congress 1 May 2004 , effective, if not rejected, 1 November 2004 We believe that an organization's abiding sense of "being responsible" in all its decisions and activities is what leads to Organizational Integrity. We work with leaders of organizations of all sorts and sizes to help them become a Responsible Enterprise. An Ethical Ed... ge is the competitive and cooperative advantage a responsible enterprise gains by embracing Organizational Integrity as its fundamental philosophy of organizational purpose. An evolving branch of applied ethics, Organizational Integrity aims to expand the depth and breadth of trust among an organization's stakeholders: leadership, employees, shareholders, suppliers, communities, and the environment. This site describes the theoretical basis and practical application of the emerging concepts of the Responsible Enterprise and Organizational Integrity, which drive effective Strategies for Responsible Business . It is a public service of the Ethics & Policy Integration Centre . For information regarding our consulting and problem-solving services, click here . As Lynn Sharp Paine writes, superior performance in today's world has both a moral and a financial dimension. Organizational Integrity provides the ethical foundation for organization design and development. It goes beyond the particular concerns of business ethics, governmental ethics, professional ethics, and environmental ethics to address how people responsibly expand their range of informed choice to achieve shared purposes. It, in turn, embodies two exciting approaches to the ethics and practices of organizations in an era of globalization: Organizational Ethics and the Learning Organization . These three concepts underlie emerging international standards of stakeholder engagement, organizational performance, and program evaluation and reporting. These are implemented by organizations of all sorts and sizes, in turn, through corporate responsibility programs unique to each organization, which draw on a ...Read More