ANTI-CORRUPTION PROFESSIONALS AND BUSINESSES ALLIANCE IN GREAT BRITAIN
Scope
The APBA’s code of ethics for businesses helps businesses to avoid serious troubles with consumers, other organisations or government authorities. It also makes decision-making easier at all levels of an organisation by reducing ambiguity. All APBA’s business members are expected to use the Code of Ethics for Businesses as a dynamic, comprehensive guideline for shaping their own policies and for making business decisions. While there will be territorial differences on ‘ethical issues’, the code is designed to provide a broad framework giving individual business members the room to narrow down to a conforming corporate version that works for them.
professional ethics and morals
Businesses - Standards - Code of ethics
Purpose
The Code of Ethics for businesses provides organisations with a common framework upon which all decisions are founded. Thereby, creating a cohesive understanding of organizational boundaries, expected norms and values, individual performance standards, and standards for interacting with internal customers as well as external stakeholders. It can also help to protect an organisations’s reputation and legal standing in the event of a breach of ethics by an individual employee. The Code of Ethics guides all managerial decisions and helps businesses drive towards defined goals and objectives thereby guaranteeing a certain future for all stakeholders​
Training and Incentives
APBA aim to ensure that the code of ethics for businesses is relevant and important to all our business members. We will implement ethics training programs for new members and existing ones to increase the effectiveness of the code. We encourage individual businesses to tie rewards and incentives to ethical behavior to further increase the code's relevance to individual employees within their organisations. It is also expected that all businesses will promote the advantages of the code in a manner that raises every employee's awareness of and commitment to the it.
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