NGO Local Ethics

At the request of three different members (one of whom is developing central church policy and two of whom are on a local parish council) we developed a code of ethics that looks at the issue of sexual misconduct by a priest, in his many and varied dealings with members of his parish. It begins by looking historically at the parish and why this level is still the most crucial level in the church, even today.

This code of ethics discussion paper is for a corporation or a government department or a non-government organisation on the use of Cost/Benefit analysis in preparing to fund a major project. It begins with an understanding of the reason why this analysis has become important and then identifies a number of major ethical problems associated with the use of this methodology. It considers the ethics of cost/benefit analysis and looks at rules for minimising these ethical concerns and makes some useful policy suggestions. International corporate policy. (C-77040)

Using the concept of stakeholders under nine ethical principles. A declaration on the principles behind the local and international activities and projects of a company limited by guarantee operating as an NGO made by the Board and made freely available to the public. These are the principles against which the company will measure its results and is happy to be measured by others. These principles are based on a slight re-write of the US-Russia: Basic Guidelines for Codes of Business Conduct, 1992 with some explanatory statements.

This code of ethics for an out of school hours care facility begins with two basic concepts: (a) the "reason for professional OOSH care" in the modern world and (b) the temporal proximity of the OOSH care to formal education. It considers the needs of the child, both "physical" and "social needs". It generates the rules for "duty of care" by the provider and in doing so identifies some actions that are ethically inseparable from this duty of care. International corporate policy.

This code of ethics was developed at the request of a member who is a middle-level manager who experiences racial vilification at a low level in her everyday operations at work. She wondered if her only recourse was the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, or if she could raise the issue at work at another level? This code of ethics begins with a history of the concept of 'race' and differs from the Racial Discrimination Act which fails to give a definition of 'race', 'racial' or 'racism'.

This code of ethics for a residential aged care facility begins with two basic concepts: the "mission" of the Home and the "reason for aged care" in the modern world. It considers the needs of the resident, both "human needs", applicable to all residents, and "personal needs", particular to this resident. It generates the rules for "duty of care" by the provider and in doing so identifies some actions that are ethically commensurate with duty of care and some actions that are ethically incompatible with duty of care. International corporate policy.

This code of ethics looks at the ethics of telling lies in the company. It starts with a detailed analysis of "what is a lie?" and finds that moralism doesn't help - you can't just say that telling lies is bad and leave it at that. It then looks at some Australian law that deals with lies in the company, mainly

This board policy paper provides the basis for a board resolution outlining the company's commitment to eliminating deceit and fraud (two important malpractices) from its operations. Its focus here is "corporate malpractice" and therefore describes criminal behaviour by management at all levels of operation (from the board to line management) (NOTE: it is not talking about an employee stealing from the company although some might consider such actions to involve some form of deceit).

This code of ethics for a long day care facility begins with two basic concepts: "parental day care" and "long day care". It generates the rules for "duty of care" by the provider and analyses the needs of the child from these basic concepts. It highlights some actions that are ethically inseparable from this duty of care. International corporate policy. (

This code of ethics for a Help Line seeks to understand what the mission of a crisis helpline is and the ethical concerns associated with this mission. It is presented in the form of an example Code of Ethics for a crisis helpline for women who have been abused. It bases the analysis on two fundamental pragmatic ethical principles related to personal crisis. It compares these two principles to the mission of the helpline and generates ten rules of "right" and "wrong" associated with running a helpline. It explains why these ethical considerations are unavoidable.