The ethics officer has to work with a range of other role-players to institutionalise ethics.
Institutionalisation: The responsibilities of the ethics office
- Facilitate all institutionalisation interventions in collaboration with enabling partners
- Design and implement ethics awareness programmes
- Provide ethics advice
- Provide ethics training
- Administer the gift register
- Manage conflicts of interest
- Ensure that HR systems and policies such as reward and recognition are aligned to ethical standards
Source: Ethics Office Handbook (TEI, 2018)
The ethics officer’s day-to-day work can be broken down into:
- Culture work
- Compliance work
- Detection/ Hotline-related work
Strategic Work
Strategic work is done once in 3 years. This work integrates ethics into the organisation’s long-term vision, governance systems, decision making, and stakeholder engagement.
Institutionalisation
Everyday Work
The institutionalisation of ethics is the core role of the ethics officer or the everyday work. The focus of institutionalisation is on how to make ethics real in the organisation so that it becomes part of the organisational culture.
INSTITUTIONALISATION
Making Ethics RealIn The Organisation.
The work of the ethics officer is to manage the ethics programme of the organisation.
