Summary
The code of ethics for us is vital. In this, we find the accepted behavior with which our staff is to follow. We have the vision statement, the mission and the core values entrenched in here. The vision for us shows our dream end where as a management consulting firm we intend to be at in future (Briscoe, 2008). This will be at our optimal point of efficiency.
The vision entrenched here in represents the road map with which we shall trace out to follow through to our dream end. On the other hand, the core values are those norms and principles that as a firm we hold on to and envision that will help enhance progressive culture (Caroselli, 2007).
We have general imperatives that guide the acts of all employees in the firm; specific professional ethics that will instruct our management consulting profession and other guidelines thereof. Discussed also is implementation, communication and reporting of the ethics and their efficacy.
Introduction
Elviswald Ltd is a private company that is incorporated in the United Kingdom. Formed in February 2002, the firm is steadily growing as a force to reckon with in the area of management consultancy. Our firm has been growing especially in the central parts of Europe. To this end, our clients range from individuals looking to establish their firms through to well-established firms.
We are very diligent in our operations and do carry out our activities with purpose in mind. Strategic advice is one that we like to offer. Struggling businesses have been revived by the help of our well trained consultants are also. We are an ISO certified company and so the quality of our systems is beyond doubt the best ever.
Vision statement
To become the leading management consultancy firm in central Europe serving clients with dignity, care and precision.
Mission statement
Our mission statement is that, “With due cooperation from the relevant stakeholders, offering the best management consultancy services and ensuring that organizations hit the peak of business existence.”
Our mission is to offer the most apt information on business revival while strengthening interrelationships among the relevant stakeholders. In our institution we follow through purpose driven activities towards attaining our goals.
Core values
Our very strong values have to a great extent contributed to our success as a firm and our endeavor to get to our vision by the use of our mission (Briscoe, 2008). These values are standards and morals that we hold on to diligently knowing that for us to bee established in the market as a leader in management consultancy, it is vital that we hold on to them. These include our baseline values:
We believe that for the firm to achieve its vision, it will call for the utmost cooperation from all the faculties of the firm. Further our belief is that the needs of our clients inform the decisions and performance that we carry out. We identify the society in which we operate gave us a charter to do our business. We therefore believe in giving back t the society and social corporate responsibility is invaluable for us.
Our staff is the best asset we shall ever have to deliver our vision; we therefore endear to hold on to mutual respect, cooperation and teamwork to better attend to the needs of our customers. In as much as perfection seems a milestone, we believe that our clients have to receive the best there is. Value for the clients’ money is our desire.
Preamble
The society that we currently operate in is increasingly complex and dynamic. Caroselli (2007) insinuates that competitiveness in the management consultancy field requires that we have a great set of values and ethics in place so that we achieve competitiveness in the industry.
Our guiding principles
The establishment of our code of ethics will be set up along certain regulatory guidelines. The following are the guidelines that will inform all our code of ethics as Elviswald ltd:
All our staff will be required to operate in a courteous yet attentive manner towards all our clients and guests that will be visiting the company. This guideline will cater for all categories of staff from the top level mangers through to the operational level staff. No visitor to the organization shall be left unattended for more than five minutes.
Staff of our organization will be required to be punctual in carrying out their duties. The stipulated reporting time for our firm is 8am. Staff will be required to report on or before this exact hour unless they have given notice in advance of their inability to get to work on time.
Efficiency and effectiveness is core for us. All or processes aim at achieving results in the shortest time yet assured of quality. Staff will not only be required to do the right thing but also do it the right way.
Our employees will be required to establish trust and work synergistically towards achieving the overall organization of the firm. Individual goal shall always be subordinate to the group goals as the targets of the firm are looked into.
Due diligence by our staff will asked of them. In this, the staffs are required to act in ways that will minimize wastage of resources at the firm. This includes general measures like switching of lights when leaving in the evening, turning off running water and other measures that would reduce the wastage at the organization.
The employees of the firm will be required to maintain the image of the firm and this will call for responsible behavior by the staff. The employees of our firm are encouraged to keep up with diligent study for self improvement. This is because we expect that the employees will keep improving in their performance and service to our clients.
Our general moral imperatives
The staff of our organization will also be expected to have their behavior at our institution conforming to certain given moral imperatives. These include the following: Work towards the wellbeing of all the members, affiliates and stakeholders of our organization. We shall also expect that our employees will carry out themselves in an honest and trustworthy manner.
Responsiveness is essential and will be required of all the employees of the firm. In these, any issues emerging that need the attention of our employees will have to be handled promptly so as to alleviate any challenges that may crop up in our company.
Our organization is an equal employment institution and would like to treat everyone fairly. Employees will be required to operate in ways that will not depict any discrimination in any way. This could be racial or otherwise.
Our employees will equally be required to carry themselves out in ways that will acknowledge and honor property rights like patents and copyrights. In line with this, we shall require that all our staff operate in ways that give credit to intellectual property.
Our employees are also required to honor the privacy that is due to the fellow employees, clients and the secrets of the firm. According to Durkheim (1994) confidentiality of the company data and records is to be ensured buy all the employees.
Specific professional responsibilities
In line with the business that we do carry out, we shall require certain behavior of our employees that will in agreement with management consultancy profession. These responsibilities will require that the employees:
To strive to get the best of quality ever by ensuring that effectiveness with dignity are maintained. Products of the professional work will be expected to be remarkable and commendable. Will strive to not only acquire but work towards marinating professional competence. This will be inclusive of not only knowing but working towards respecting the laws that regulate the management consultancy profession.
Employees will be required to provide having accepted professional review. This will work towards unending improvement of the quality of the employees and the services that are offered (Koehns, 1994). We also expect that employees will give comprehensive yet adequate analysis of any risks that may be eminent in our organization.
Our staff is also required to honor all the contracts that they enter into on behalf of the firm, any assignment s thereof and follow through any responsibilities that are assigned to them.
Members of our team as an institution will also be required to work towards improving the public understanding of the management consultancy profession so as to enable the firm to also grow the brand name in the process. Consequences of this profession are also to be made known to the public by our staff at an opportunity of this.
Employees covered
Our code of ethics would cover all the professional employees. The consultants, Receptionists, analysts and the middle level managers shall be covered by the same code of ethics that are general. However there are codes of ethics that are particular to specific departments like the catering, cleaning department and the more professional departments.
The management consultancy department for example will be required to set up their own code of ethics that will govern them. This I because communication for them will be easier and convincing them to be acceptable before the staff. At the same time, the catering department, finance department and the other departments of our organization shall structure the code of ethics that will be best suited to govern them.
Implementation and communication
Implementation and communication of the code of ethics for our firm is very important. This is because for us to get the support of the staff members, we need to inform them of the importance the code of ethics. Further, we shall establish teams that will set out to communicate the importance of the ethics to the members.
The members will be informed of specifically what they will be required to do and what they will not required doing. Equally, the staff members will be required to sign against the code of ethics forms that will stipulate the regulations governing the behavior of our employees.
Enforcement and reporting
For proper enforcement of our code of ethics, evaluation of the same will be carried out on a regular basis so as to ensure that the staff members are in apposition to identify with them. The staff members will be encouraged to own the ethics and to know the benefit of having to incorporate such ethics in the firm.
Employees will be required to sign against the code of ethics to show that they agree with them and that they will obey the code of ethics as it were. As an institution we realize that to be effective and efficient we need the ethics. For as to have peaceful and harmonious relationships in the organization, the ethics need to be present in the organization.
Organizational leadership imperatives
The leaders of our organization despite having the other code of ethics to govern them will be imperatively required to carry themselves out in a certain way. As an organizational leader, it calls for positive character and influence thereof to ensure that the other subordinates are inline and can relate to the leaders who are ethical.
Leaders are expected to articulate the various social responsibilities of the various members of the organizational unit. They should also work to improve the full acceptance of the various responsibilities by the staff members.
The organizational leaders will also be required to design systems information and the like, that will work to enhance the quality of life at the work place. The leaders have a responsibility of ensuring the environment they set up is conducive for the working of all other employees.
Leaders are also required to not only support proper use of organization resources but also to acknowledge the same. This will ensure that resources are put to meaningful use. Ensure that all the employees have their needs clearly stated so that all other requirements in the organization are fully and equivocally catered for.
The leaders also need to validate all the needs in the organization so that cost cutting measures are put in place. Leaders have to not only articulate sound policies of the organization but also to protect the dignity of all the employees and other stakeholders that work and associate with our firm.
Our leaders in the organization will also be required to create opportunities that will enhance the continued development of the staff members both professionally and as individuals.
Conclusion
Our organization hopes and seeks to have the support of all the employees towards the realization of our vision and the running of our mission. We shall from time to time get feedback form our employees as regards their view on how the code of ethics does operate for them. We look forward to setting ourselves out as an efficient organization by the use of our code of ethics.
References
Caroselli, M. (2007). Give Your Ethics A Good Workout, Executive Idealink. Web.
Briscoe, S. (2008). Finding Your Ethical Compass. New York: Associations Now. Web.
Koehns, D. (1994). The ground of professional ethics. New York: Routledge.
Durkheim, E. (1992). Professional ethics and civic morals. New York: Routledge.