Date:
Dear:
The Garland Rotary Club will
be interviewing businesses about their approach to ethics!
Why is a Service Club doing an Ethics “Audit”?
Rotary clubs have been in the Garland since 1927 (80 years). High ethical standards have been promoted in
business since its earliest days. In 1943 the “Four-Way Test” was adopted as a way to express
this professional business life commitment of Rotary Club Members. As a service organization, we want to help our
community’s businesses with their ethics needs. To do this, we first need
to know what the realities are in your business.
Our goal for this research is to understand
what ethics approaches are being used in the Garland business community. We anticipate we will need only 15 to 30 minutes
of your time.
Our plan is to have two or more Rotary Club members
come to your place of business and talk with you about your company’s approach
to business ethics. Some initial questions
we plan to ask are:
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How do you convey your own business
ethics position to your employees?
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What supporting evidence is present
in your company that shows your ethics philosophy?
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What evidence do you have about
what your customers think about your business ethics?
Your assistance with this research is appreciated.
Your help is needed to set up a date and time for the visit with our
Rotary Members. We will be glad to share our audit results when
we are finished. All specific information
we gather will be kept as confidential as you would like.
We do hope to find good business ethics examples in our community that
we can recognize for the positive impact they are having in Garland.
If you are not familiar with Rotary, please see the
brochures about Rotary and the Four-Way Test.
We look
forward to visiting with you soon,
_______________________________
Mary
Whitt
Garland
Rotary President, 2007 - 2008
