Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Etiğin Kurumsallaştırılması

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 64, 301 - 320, 01.01.2020

Elif Bilginoğlu

Öz

İş etiği konusundaki duyarlılık, günümüz küresel dünyasında örgütlere giderek daha çok değer kazandırmaktadır. Kurumsal etik profesyonel bir davranış standardına uyarak, insan zararını en aza indirmeye ve insan yararını maksimize etmeye yönelik kurumsal eylemler ya da politikalarla ilgilenmelidir. İş yaşamındaki davranışların daha etik hale getirilmesi konusundaki ana yaklaşımlardan biri olan etiğin kurumsallaştırılması, etiğin biçimsel ve aynı zamanda anlaşılır bir şekilde günlük iş yaşamına dâhil edilmesi girişimlerini ifade etmektedir. Bu çalışmada, örgütlerin etiği kurumsallaştırmaya yönelik çabaları ele alınmakta, “etik” ile “etiğin kurumsallaştırılması” kavramları üzerinden etiği kurumsallaştırmaya yönelik girişimler tanımlanmakta ve literatürdeki bazı uygulamalar incelenerek örgütlerin kendi içlerinde etik değerler oluşturma girişimleri kurumsallaştırılması üzerine daha önce yapılmış olan bazı çalışmaların bulguları ve araştırmacıların örgütlerde etiğin kurumsallaştırılması girişimlerini daha etkin hale getirmek için verdikleri bazı uygulama önerileri incelenmekte ve böylece örgütlere etiği kurumsallaştırma konusunda bir yol haritası sunulması amaçlanmaktadır

Anahtar Kelimeler

Etik, iş etiği, etiğin kurumsallaştırılması

Institutionalization of Ethics in Turkey and Worldwide

Öz

In today’s global world, the awareness on business ethics is increasingly adding value to organizations. Corporate ethics should deal with corporate actions or policies in order to minimize human harm and maximize human benefit by complying with a standard of professional conduct. The institutionalization of ethics, which is one of the main approaches in making business behavior more ethical, refers to the attempts to integrate ethics formally and clearly in daily business life. The present study deals with the efforts of organizations to institutionalize ethics and defines the attempts to institutionalize ethics through the concepts of “ethics” and “institutionalization of ethics” and furthermore examines some practices in the literature in order to investigate the initiatives of organizations to create ethical values within themselves. This study finally reviews the findings of previous research on the institutionalization of ethics and practical implications of researchers to make the efforts of institutionalization of ethics within organizations more effective and in this way, it aims to provide organizations with a roadmap on institutionalizing ethics

Anahtar Kelimeler

Ethics, business ethics, institutionalization of ethics

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