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Article: Universal principles, the association role, and when codes work.(Talking About Ethics, part 1)(Panel Discussion)
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- Association Management
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Organizations are paying more attention to ethics. People actually talk about ethics. But are our organizations - and are we - behaving more ethically? As our expectations about the ethical behavior of politicians have plummeted, have our expectations about the ethical behavior of organizations risen?
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