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ERC Fellows Working Groups

ERC Fellows Working Groups

The ERC Fellows Program Supports six active working groups to conduct collaborative research and practical work products, including: white papers, interviews, surveys, templates, and literature reviews.
 
  • Relationship between CSR and Ethics
Many different viewpoints exist on the relationship between CSR and ethics, and how these disciplines need to be integrated in the subsequent years. The ERC Fellows and the ERC research team will commence this group with a very brief review of the relationship between CSR & ethics. The primary focus of this group, however, will be on producing a document of guidelines that can provide ethics officers with best practices on ways to apply ethics and CSR into their formal corporate governance structure.
  • Procedural Justice
This working group is concerned with how ethics or compliance officers dealing with employees' reports of misconduct might most effectively handle these cases.  By introducing ethics and compliance officers to key tools for managing disputes, the reported ethical issues can be resolved in a manner that better maximizes satisfaction and continued organizational commitment on the part of both the complainant (reporter) and the target of the complaint. This can be accomplished by developing an understanding of the experience of employees who report problems and issues to ethics and compliance officers.
  • Selecting For Ethics
This group will investigate the feasibility of employers screening potential employees for ethics by measuring ethical predispositions, and whether or not these predispositions are reliable predictors of work performance.
  • Fellows Work Product Repackaging
This group will review the archives of the ERC Fellows Program and identify past working group deliverables that should be repackaged and reproduced. These deliverables will be analyzed and updated as necessary, then made available to the Fellows in their repackaged form.
  • Supervisory Support & Culture Behaviors
The ERC Fellows expressed great interest in the findings of the measurement working group's supervisory support study, and formed this group to produce a deliverable that would clearly list specific behaviors that demonstrate both positive and negative supervisory support.
  • Social Networking & Ethics
This group will investigate how ethics and compliance programs should integrate social networking technologies and social network analyses in an effort to positively influence ethical culture and behavior.
  • Responsibility & Transparency
This group will investigate the question of how ethics officers can properly and effectively position themselves in their organizations to better engage leadership on making responsible business decisions in light of President Obama's call for a new era of responsibility and transparency.
Resources
10th Anniversary Publication
For an in-depth look at the ERC Fellows Program and its accomplishments over the last decade, you can review the 10th Anniversary Publication: Transforming Organizational Culture Through the Knowledge and Practice of Ethics.