The Business Ethics Blog

I’m currently spending the fall as a Visiting Fellow at Duke University’s wonderful Kenan Institute for Ethics.

One of the many interesting projects here at Kenan is an online evaluation tool called Measure Up, “an online assessment tool to help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your organization’s ethical culture.”

The Measure Up instrument is, of course, just a very brief, thought provoking start at assessing an organization’s ethical culture (the Kenan folks are interested to work with organizations to provide fuller assessments). But it’s worth noting the value inherent in simply working one’s way through the questions the instrument asks. The process is probably just as valuable as the outcome. It’s worth something simply to sit down and think through questions like, “Do leaders at my organization genuinely encourage input?” and “Does my organization genuinely take the concerns of outside stakeholders into account when making decisions?”