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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. TABLE 6.1 IDENTIFICATION OF BUSINESS RISKS RISK FOCUS/CATEGORIES AICPA/ CICA INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS Company Objectivesx Areas of Impact:Reputation Assets, Revenues, Costs Performance Stakeholders xxxxxxxx Sources of Risk:Environmental Strategic Operational Informational Financial xxxxxxxx xxxxxx Specific Hazards or Perils:Lawsuits Fire Theft Earthquake/natural disasters xxxxxx xxxx Degree of Control over the RiskLittle, Some, Greatx Documentationx
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. TABLE 6.2 RISK EVENTS CAUSING A DROP OF OVER 25 PERCENT IN FORTUNE 1000 STOCKS, 1993-1998 PERCENT Strategic RisksCustomer Demand Shortfall Competitive Pressure M & A Integration Problems Misaligned Products Customer Pricing Pressures Loss of Key Customer Regulatory Problems R & D Delays Supplier problems 24 12 7 6 4 2 1 58 Operational RisksCost Overruns Accounting Irregularities Management Ineffectiveness Supply Chain Issues 11 7 6 31 FinancialForeign Macro-economic Issues High Input Commodity Price Interest Ratio Fluctuation 3 2 1 6 HazardLawsuits Natural Disasters 0 Unknown5 SOURCE: Figure 0.3, Mercer Management Consulting, reproduced in IIA Study, xxix. 4
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. TABLE 6.3 OVERLAP OF TRADITIONAL AND ETHICS RISK/STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS ASSESSMENT APPROACHES USUALLY IMPORTANT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS RISKSSHAREHOLDERSCONSUMERSEMPLOYEESGOVERNMENTENVIRONMEDIA Strategic Reputation Stakeholder Other xxxxxx xxxx Some xSome OperationsxPartial Financialx HazardxPartial EthicsFull
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. FIGURE 6.1 ETHICS RISK AND OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT Phase 1 Develop a projected, ranked understanding of stakeholder interests/ expectations Identify Rank: Urgency, power, legitimacy Dynamic analysis Confirmation Phase 2 Compare activities to expectations to identify ethics risks & opportunities Performance: Inputs, outputs, quality Hypernorm: Honesty, fairness, compassion, integrity, predictability, responsibility Reputation Driver: Trustworthiness, credibility, reliability, responsibility Phase 3 Reports by Stakeholder group Product or service Corporate objective Hypernorm value Reputation driver
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. FIGURE 6.2 DIAGNOSTIC TYPOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS Stakeholder’s Potential for Threat Stakeholder’s Potential For Cooperation High Low Type 4 Mixed Blessing Type 1 Supportive Type3 Nonsupportive Type 2 Marginal Strategy Collaborate Strategy Involve Strategy Defend Strategy Monitor SOURCE: G. Savage et al, “Strategies for assessing and managing organizational shareholders”, The Executive, Vol. 5, no. 2, May 1991, 65. Low
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. TABLE 6.4 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS THEMES IN NORTH AMERICA Privacy and dignity of person, personal information and property: Boundaries of personal rights, employers rights and right of the public Proper procedures: notification and consent Testing for substance abuse Harassment, sexual and otherwise Fair treatment: Discrimination: age, race, sex, employment, pay Fair policies Is equal treatment fair? Healthy and safe work environment Expectations: reasonability, right to know, stress, family life, productivity Quality-of-life concerns: smoking, health Family-friendly workplaces Ability to exercise conscience Blind loyalty Whistle-blowing Trust – the key to leadership, innovation, loyalty, and performance – depends on ethics Operations: downsizing, contingent workforce
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. FIGURE 6.3 PHASES OF A CRISIS Cost To Organization Unanticipated Crisis Anticipated Crisis Control Begins Controlled Pre-crisis Uncontrolled Reputation Restoration Continuing Reputational Imapct Post- Crisis State Reached Time Phases
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L.J. Brooks, Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives, & Accountants, 3e, Thompson, South-Western, 2004. TABLE 6.5 HOW TO INCORPORATE ETHICS INTO CRISIS MANAGEMENT Prevention and warning: Code of conduct: identify values, adopt, emphasize and make effective Identify potential ethics problems and warning indicators, and pre-plan responses, as part of an ongoing enterprise risk management and contingency planning program Ethical “red flags” or warning indicators: Training to emphasize how to identify and what to do about them Check as part of an ongoing enterprise risk management system Encourage by publicizing good examples, and awarding paper medals Analytical approach: Apply a stakeholder-analysis framework as discussed in Chapter 5: External ethics consultant Checklist or specific time to consider: ethics issues, alternatives & opportunities Decision itself: Ethics/company’s values: integrate into the decision making: Consider how the crisis or its impact can be influenced ethically–timing, cost, mitigation? Specific consideration of how to improve the organization’s reputation drivers including–trustworthiness, responsibility, reliability, and credibility Specific ethical communications objectives Assign ethics watch-dog responsibility Use a checklist or template with specific ethics objectives Apply moral imagination as discussed in Chapter 5 Communications on ethical intent to: Media, employees, customers, government, public & other stakeholders
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