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In this third installment of our Ethical Dilemmas Series, Kevin Moss puts forward a Truth vs. Loyalty dilemma.  As a Corporate Responsibility professional, do you have to act when your company behaves in an unethical manner?  Other professions have positive obligations.  Should CROs?

Help us test our draft Ethics Code by playing out this scenario in your own mind and giving us your feedback.  At CRO Summit we had some great live-fire exercises.  Share how you'd resolve this dilemma and how the Ethics Code helped (or didn't).

In this second installment of our Ethical Dilemmas Series, Kevin Moss puts forward a Justice vs. Mercy dilemma.  When a colleague crosses the line should you enforce the rules or look with mercy on a transgressor?  As a CRO do you have a special obligation that goes beyond that of the average executive?

Help us test our draft Ethics Code by playing out this scenario in your own mind and giving us your feedback.  Or join us at CRO Summit for a live-fire exercise.  Share how you'd resolve this dilemma and how the Ethics Code helped (or didn't).

The CROA’s Professional Development Committee drafted an ethics code and came up with a set of ethical dilemmas to test it.  In this post we layout the overall concept of ethical dilemmas and propose the first dilemma for you -- our field testers -- to consider. 

Dilemma #1:  A Gaggle of Privacy Concerns.  Complying with a Chinese request to provide personal data would break your company's privacy policy but failure to comply breaks the law.  What do you do?

The CROA is simultaneously raising the bar and lowering the barrier to improving corporate responsibilty.  Throughout 2010 we've reviewed the ranking system used to create CR's Black List and its Best Corporate Citizens Lists while also working on a Code of Ethics.  Now these efforts come together with specific tools companies can use to create more ethical cultures.

Doctors have an ethics code. PR professionals, accountants, lawyers, ombudsman, engineers and ethics officers all have ethics codes.  In many ways, a well crafted ethics code defines a profession; it gives guidance to its practitioners to support the most taxing judgment calls they will have to make and articulates its defining values to those outside the profession. As the conscience of many organizations, it's time for Corporate Responsibility professionals to follow suit.

CROA's Professional Development Committee Chair calls CR professionals to define an ethics code.