摘要：Recent pressures for better corporate governance and greater accountability have spurred
business organizations and academic institutions to reexamine their codes of ethics. The creation
of an ethical code demands an assessment of its effectiveness. The literature suggests that key
influences on ethical decision making include stakeholder involvement, code design, code
implementation and enforcement, and organizational culture. Using those criteria, a survey
instrument was developed and administered to university and college faculty and administrators
for the purpose of assessing their perceptions of their institutions’ codes of ethics. This article
presents a conceptual framework for code evaluation; a description of the survey; and results of
the survey examining how faculty members and administrators perceived their institutional
codes.
