Silent Whistle: Ethics Survey

Company Background

SilentWhistle helps companies of all sizes guard against fraud, harassment, policy violation, theft and other ethical issues in the workplace, resulting in improved security and Sarbanes-Oxley 301 compliance while enabling open lines of communication between employees-customers-partners and the organization.

SilentWhistle was founded in response to the market's need for innovative tools that could proactively combat the continuing barriers of communication within organizations. From a simple online suggestion box to a state-of-the-art web and phone-based feedback system, SilentWhistle 's suite of enterprise wide feedback solutions will help you see what you're not hearing from your employees, customers, and vendors.

Project Summary

We created a well-researched and reusable ethics survey for Silent Whistle. The survey focuses on the general ethics of an organization and consists of a variety of questions that aid an analyst in diagnosing an organization's ethical standing. We used an open-source software product and prepared the survey for use on the corporate website. The survey was created through the following four steps:

• Reviewed academic literature, magazines, and other resources necessary to gain a solid understanding to build the survey and question base.
• Identified experts in various fields in which corporate ethics are a concern. We interviewed at least one in each of the following categories:

o Accounting and Financial Issues
o Company Policies, Safety, and Theft
o Social Interactions
o General Ethics

• Created numerous questions, and reviewed and analyzed these questions with an appropriate expert.
• Created a general survey of about 30 questions. These questions were drawn from the larger question databank that we also created.

The primary deliverables for this engagement included a written report, a formal presentation outlining the results of our research, a general survey of approximately 30 questions that may be used as an Ethics Diagnostic, and a databank of additional questions that can be used in the future.

The primary benefits of this engagement extend beyond the deliverables discussed above. The primary benefits include a viable Ethics Diagnostic tool that the company will use not only as another product but also as a marketing tool to attract new clients. Furthermore, we anticipate that the research we conducted and the analysis we provided will lend the client company a greater understanding of ethics in general and help to provide a more solid foundation for the work that is conducted there.

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• Rollins Center for eBusiness
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• Phone: (801) 422-2815
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