Recently I came across information regarding a company called Ethics Point, which provides employees and students with a confidential and anonymous reporting system in order to foster a culture of honesty, ethical decision-making and educational integrity. Interestingly, the school district that is using this system needs more than a watchdog type of software.
Ethics, honesty and integrity are interior qualities that require development through making decisions that are ethical and honest. A software system can never instill these qualities into a person, or a school system. Without personal integrity on an individual level, no amount of lip service or technology will matter.
In my view, any organization that is relying on a system such as Ethics Point, in order to promote ethical behaviors, really needs to re-evaluate the employees currently working for the institution. If there are so many egregious lapses in ethical values and behavior among the faculty, then those should be grounds for termination. Adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already top heavy organization is not the solution to major internal problems...rather, it is just a band-aid, which will eventually fall off and reveal a deep and infected wound.
Ethics, honesty and integrity are interior qualities that require development through making decisions that are ethical and honest. A software system can never instill these qualities into a person, or a school system. Without personal integrity on an individual level, no amount of lip service or technology will matter.
In my view, any organization that is relying on a system such as Ethics Point, in order to promote ethical behaviors, really needs to re-evaluate the employees currently working for the institution. If there are so many egregious lapses in ethical values and behavior among the faculty, then those should be grounds for termination. Adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already top heavy organization is not the solution to major internal problems...rather, it is just a band-aid, which will eventually fall off and reveal a deep and infected wound.
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