Social Responsibility. “Since the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley legislations, any
publicly held company is required to create its own code of ethics to deter
wrongdoing and to promote ethical behavior”.
(Source: http://www.12manage.com/description_code_of_ethics.html).
Search the Internet for the following terms: “Sarbanes
Oxley Code of Ethics” to find the SOX definition of a “code of
ethics” and the requirements to meet the code.
Search the Internet for three publicly held companies and
find their respective “Code of Ethics.” Review the three different
codes and write a page paper on the following:
1. What was in each respective code?
2. Is the code adequate to what the Sarbanes Oxley Act was
requesting? Justify your answer.
3. If each of these publicly held companies were to conduct
business globally, what business or cultural challenges would be best handled
by the respective codes?
4. Identify what may be missing in the respective codes that
would assist the company in conducting business globally
