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Ethics and compliance officers


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    • Business conduct officers
    • Business ethics officers
    • Compliance officers
    • ECOs (Ethics and compliance officers)
    • EOs (Ethics officers)
    • Officers, Ethics and compliance

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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Ezekiel, Z. The evolving role of the ethics and compliance officer, c2006.
    • found: Ethics & Compliance Officer Association Web site, Jan. 30, 2007(individuals who are responsible for their company's ethics, compliance, and business conduct programs; corporate ethics and compliance practitioners; ethics and compliance officers; an Ethics & Compliance Officer is a leader in the area of business conduct. The Ethics & Compliance Officer is tasked with integrating their organization's ethics and values initiatives, compliance activities, and business conduct practices into the decision-making processes at all levels of the organization)
    • found: Corporate-Ethics.US Web site, Jan. 30, 2007:ethics officer ("The law requires many business companies to have an Ethics Officer plus a Legal Compliance Officer (or a combination officer) operating at the 'substantial authority' level of management. Beyond the legal requirements, there are many practical business reasons for having an Ethics Officer and a Legal Compliance Officer (or a combination officer) and an operative corporate ethics culture"; ethics officer and compliance officer) Why have an ethics officer? (EO; Ethics and Compliance Officer (ECO))
    • found: Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2007(under Business ethics: Ethics officers (sometimes called "compliance" or "business conduct officers") have been appointed formally by organizations since the mid-1980s; ethics/compliance officers; they often report to the Chief Executive Officer and are responsible for assessing the ethical implications of the company's activities, making recommendations regarding the company's ethical policies, and disseminating information to employees. They are particularly interested in uncovering or preventing unethical and illegal actions)
    • found: Business ethics : a manual for managing a responsible business enterprise in emerging market economies, 2004, via WWW, viewed Feb. 5, 2007:p. 130 (ethics and compliance officers) p. 139 (business ethics officers) p. 257 (ethics officers)
    • notfound: Encyclopedia of business, 2nd ed. (online), Jan. 30, 2007;Encyclopedia of management online, Jan. 30, 2007;WashingtonPost.com business glossary, Jan. 30, 2007

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  • Change Notes

    • 2007-02-10: new
    • 2007-07-27: revised

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