European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Eback for Fred Friendly. Itic former lbs news Boss who hosted the pcs ethics series remembers Well a genl la scolding by supremo court Justice Potter Stewart the trouble with your profession journalism is thai All confused about what you have a right to do under the. Constitution and he right thing to since the Early Days of tha Vietnam War most daily headlines and leading items evening news have involved Morales Well As Legal choices the Pentagon papers the watergate break in the Village of my Lai pulling the plug on Karen Ann Qumran lust and greed among to evangelists Oliver North hero or villain North argues he lied to Congress of Servo what he perceived As a higher Good Socrates defied Tho Law in refusing to linger fellow athenians opposed to the Rule of the 30 tyrants. From gait cells. Henry Thoreau and the n pcs television series ethics in tons in government business and Madia. Jail 30.1989 Rev Martin Luther King or urged disobedience to unjust Laws. Jeb Magruder said his role Model for breaking the Law in the watergate Alfair was his old ethics teacher at Yale the Rev. William Solario Coflin who recommended that students Burn their draft cards shut Down the City of Washington on House Calls to Industry ethicist Newton Aries from the designation philosopher thai s someone who stands around Tho water cooler All Day she a cartoon on her o lice door comes closer to. Describing the role of the Elri Cist in Industry a harried executive is pushing a Button on the intercom and intoning miss Wattles will you Send someone in who knows right from lately leaders in the Kjelds of government Medicine Law engineering computers and journalism in the United states have been pushing the Button for an expert consultant to help write some ethical guidelines or Deal with cases of misconduct a recent example of Job opportunities for a late Day Socrates is the nationwide search conducted by Florida s Poynter Institute Tor a theologian or philosopher to head up its ethics Center. Three other branches of this highly Rospo cled Institute concentrate on improving skills and standards of working journalist san writing graphics and management we believe people at every level can be trained to think about ethical dilemmas says is title president Robert when that big Call comes up at 10 40 and you re going to press Al i you have a More orderly Way to approach it. A lot of these ethical Calls have to be made by Street reporters. We re talking about repo Lonai behaviour. Is it of to read upside Down on somebody s desk is it of to open a Guy s file cab Mel White he s out of the once is it of to lie about who you Are to pretend you re an ambulance attendant or whatever1?" some at the lop of the executive ladder argue that ethics Ira Irwig should begin at Tho very Bollom. Long before collage of professional school. A an mba Candida la Doorn l know the difference Between honesty and crime below can lying and telling he truth wrote ism chairman John Kors in a recent Issue o the Sloane management review then business school in All probability will not produce a Akers kinds it ludicrous that Evon divinity schools and Law schools and departments of philosophy have to pay proctors to pad up and Down Tho aisles at examination time to make sure nobody is looking at crib notes or copying from a neighbor.". An increasing number of Fortune 500 companies and countless smaller firms Are calling in experts to help draft a formal code of ethics. Chemical Bank s code of which must a read and signed by All its 30,000 employees worldwide is among the most widely copied. To translate the code into an operating philosophy 250 vice presidents have undergone a two Day seminar on decision making and corporate values presided Over by the Bank s chairman. Ther code is credited with chemical s decision to create a special lending unit for minority businesses and its refusal to finance arms exporters and corporate raiders or do business with pornographers Massage Parlours and several countries fun by executive officer James Butke Calls Johnson and Johnson s Credo which Dales Back to 1945. Iho glue thai held the health care multinational together during two Nightmare tylenol poisoning incidents and played the most important role in withdrawing the capsules. The Credo also dictated management s decision to Stop advertising their baby Oil As a tanning Lolion alter medical evidence showed the product seeded up the. Sun s harming Al feels on Tho skirt. Sales from $10 million to $5 million but again the turn bounced Back. Why Are ethics suddenly hoi now in the Wake of the scandals in Wall Street Chicago 3 commodity Market and Welense contracts. There is unawareness that the company which acts responsibly can avoid lines and jail sentences reduce court suits that Legal and accounting the. Threat of More government regulation increase company morale and attract a higher Type More Loyal pm Toyee there is a growing conviction that . Culture and ethics Are a vital strategic key to survival a n it profitability in a highly competitive Cra concludes Tho business Public issues Lorum Tor some 200 i Topchie executive officers Al Lei an Iri depth study of the corporate ethics of 10 leading firms. Including Boeing chemical Bank general Mills nod " Xerox. few weeks ago. New York s Harvard club witnessed an unlikely gathering of theologians philosophers and. Wall Street brokers and analysis to launch ethics in Irie financial marketplace by John Casey managing director of the investment firm scud Jer. Stevens and a when Casoy a disciple of Chuck Powers. Saldo Vinat. His Apple it word processor to write a "hpw-lo".guid6 to responsible business behaviour Wall Street joked thai it would be one of the Sho Lesl Hooks Over. " the Rev never disguises the act he is a. Jesuit priest when going into a ism notes that me Yuppie philosophy of All Quick any which Way is somewhat in decline some of Tho fasl trackers Are Mora cautious now Hal the Market is less Giddy he says also when you see people barred for Lila from the Security Industry it gives pause to Ihrk " the stars and stripes Page 15
