Measuring the Value of Ethical Frameworks

A central focus of our work at Canmore Ethics is thinking about how organizational processes influence outcomes. We regularly find that when ethical issues occur, it’s not because of bad people acting negligently, but because the organization had no process for identifying and addressing ethical risk. Different tools exist for correcting this gap. One is a code of conduct; another is an ethics framework. Both of these are useful, but their value can be exaggerated. We have already explored the limits of codes of conduct in a previous article. Here, we discuss ethical frameworks.