What is the meaning of ‘Violation’?
Ethics is the study of understanding whether what an organization’s employees do is good and right (Manikutty, Being Ethical p. 19). As for the HR office of XYZ corporation, which now has a fully functional Ethics Officer and a Corporate Code of Ethics, the main responsibility is to create a procedure through which its employees can report any violations of its ethics code. But before creating a procedure, it is very important to first fully understand the true meaning of the word ‘violation’.
A ‘violation’ refers to several actions that the employees and other stakeholders of the organization take that result ...