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Communicating the ethos of codes of ethics in corporate Australia, 1995-2001: whose rights, whose responsibilities? Wood, Greg and Callaghan, Michael 2003, Communicating the ethos of codes of ethics in corporate Australia, 1995-2001: whose rights, whose responsibilities?, Employee responsibilities and rights journal, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 209-221. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads wood-communicatingtheethos-post-2003.pdf Author's post print application/pdf 129.94KB 158 Title Communicating the ethos of codes of ethics in corporate Australia, 1995-2001: whose rights, whose responsibilities? Author(s) Wood, Greg Callaghan, Michael Journal name Employee responsibilities and rights journal Volume number 15 Issue number 4 Start page 209 End page 221 Publisher Plenum Press Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2003-12 ISSN 0892-7545 1573-3378 Keyword(s) ethics codes of ethics ethics education whistleblowers longitudinal study Summary This paper considers the commitment to business ethics of the top 500 companies operating in the Australian private sector and communicates the results of a longitudinal study conducted from 1995 to 2001. Primary data was obtained (in 1995 and again in 2001) via a self-administered mail  questionnaire distributed to a census of these top 500 Australian  companies. This commitment of each company to their code of ethics was indicated and measured via a range of methods used by organizations to communicate the ethos of their codes to employees. Just as they were in  1995, it would appear that companies in 2001 still are good at ensuring that their rights are protected, but at the same time they do not seem to take on the responsibility to ensure that employees'' rights are just as well protected. This double standard leads to cynicism towards the current business ethics processes inherent in Australian companies. Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2003, Plenum Publishing Corporation Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002120 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Management and Marketing Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 09 Feb 2009, 15:22:13 EST Fri, 18 Mar 2011, 13:04:07 EST Fri, 18 Mar 2011, 13:05:31 EST Fri, 18 Mar 2011, 13:10:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts: Cited 24 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 431 Abstract Views, 158 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:15:53 EST

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