Recognizing business ethics leaders
WROC Rochester First
CPA Tom Walpole discussed what defines an ethical business
and the effort to recognize Rochester's best Monday during News 8 at Sunrise.
Walpole explained ethics breaches can come on a mass scale, like Enron or the
Madoff ponzi scheme, or a smaller scale. "You're going to see the small
ones that people don't really think about as an ethics violation, like at the
water cooler talking about somebody's problem with a boyfriend or girlfriend,
or things like that, plus people changing golf scores, or managers unfairly
taking action against one employee for something and not another. Those types
of things are small business ethics violations, but they tend to go on
everyday."