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Article: Mental hygiene. (Editor's Note).(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Internal Auditor
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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ETHICS AND ALL THAT SURROUNDS IT has become one of the first long-term media issues of the 21st Century. It's difficult to pick up a business magazine, newspaper, or journal without finding stories of those short shrifting ethical conduct. Defining morality has peaked the media's topic list since the beginning of the Enron debacle.
Having recently finished editing Sen. Charles Schumer's written comments for Governance Perspectives, a compilation of highlights from The IIA's 2002 Corporate Governance Summit, I can't help but remember his words about what should come next:
"Although we must punish the wrongdoers, it is also important to recognize and ...