With corporate scandals continuing unabated and hitting the headlines daily (the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis, Siemens’ bribery probe, Societe Generale’s rogue trader, to name a few), more and more organizations—whether corporate, non-profit, academic, or governmental—are adopting global codes of conduct for their employees, executives, agents, partners, and vendors. And these global codes are not necessarily being used as organizational wallpaper like they might have in the past.
