Ethics Consultant Exercise: Role Play: Assume that you are a business ethics consultant. A company president who has been reading the news and who heard about the Federal Criminal Sentencing guidelines has hired you to develop an ethics program for her company. How would you go about implementing an ethics program in a company today? Explain your recommendations by answering the following questions. Do not use outside resources to complete this exercise. (Max length: 2 pages) What is the first thing you would do? Who would you talk to? List all stakeholders you believe would be important to interview. After you have gathered your information, you are ready to draft a code of ethics for the company. Where will you start? Who should have input and why? The code is drafted and you are ready to launch. How will you do it to prevent employees from discounting the initiative before it starts? Who should make the announcement? Why? What is your next step? How should employees report any wrongdoing? Things have been going pretty well. Are you finished?
