Develop an ethics program for a company.

Scenario: You are the ethics officer at a new company, Company X, and you have been charged with the task of creating an ethics program as a part of the new employee handbook. Your program should include a standards and procedures section, an ethics training section, a section regarding employee misconduct, and a plan for evaluating and improving the ethics program after implementation. Task: Develop an ethics program, as can be found in an employee handbook or employee guidelines, (suggested length of 5–7 pages) for the given company in which you do the following: A. Develop an applicable standards and procedures section that includes a minimum of four elements of acceptable or unacceptable behavior found in a code of ethics. B. Describe the type of training program that you will provide for your organization. 1. Develop a section that identifies a minimum of three specific components for an ethics training program. C. Develop a section that explains the processes for each of the following: 1. Monitoring employee misconduct a. Identify measures or procedures to be used b. What type of misconduct will you be looking for and how will you look for it c. Who will be doing the monitoring 2. Reporting employee misconduct a. Identify measures or procedures you will use b. How might an employee report a co-worker who is violating company policy D. Develop a section that explains your plan to audit the ethics program after implementation by addressing each of the following: • What tools are used to measure the effectiveness of your ethics program? • What is the frequency of review? • Who will conduct the review? • How will improvements be implemented? • How will changes be communicated?      

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