The Effectiveness of the Company’s Ethics (Hewlett Packard)

  Analysis and Critique of the Effectiveness of the Company’s Ethics Program and Recommendations for Improvement (THESE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTIONS OF YOUR PAPER!) – This section will contain your own independent analysis of the company’s ethics strategy, as well as your specific recommendations for how it can be improved. In this section, you are no longer merely reporting on the company, but you are giving your own analytical critique of the company and making specific, tangible recommendations for improvement. Keep in mind that your analysis will reflect your own opinions, but it must be based upon facts! Thus, this section MUST have citations and references to relevant data supporting your analysis. If you are doing this section correctly, you will be doing research not only on your company, but also comparing it to others in the industry as a whole, and/or specific competitors. A. Analysis of the Company’s Ethics Program Non-exhaustive examples of the types of things you should be addressing in this section are: o Is the company following its own ethics code? Has it been involved in any unethical business practices? If so, what practices? How did those practices violate its own ethics code (describe its failures; which ethical goals were violated by the failures)? o Is the company’s ethical code logically tied to the company’s business? Does it make sense as to why the company is pursuing these ethics goals? How they are relevant to the company’s business model, or do they seem unrelated to the business? o If you were an employee of this company, would the published code of ethics/conduct provide you with adequate information such that you would know how you are expected to behave? Is the code of ethics easy to understand, and thorough? o Is the company transparent in how it reports on its ethics program and responsibility efforts? Can you really tell what the company is doing? o How could the company’s ethics plan be revised to be more meaningful/useful to the business? Are there some specific current societal concerns that impact this company that it is not currently addressing? Are there certain stakeholders that the company is currently ignoring that it should be addressing? o What type of ethics efforts are your company’s competitors doing? How can this inform what your company should be doing? Wants information from Hewlett Packard code of ethics & From 10-k