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Does your organization have an Ethics Hotline? If so, what has been your experience with it?

Our organization has an ethics hotline, however employees only seem to want to use it after they have been discipline, suspended or terminated. Based on that, I can't say that it is really effective, becasue these employees call and basically throw their managers and/or co-workers under the bus, becasue they want to shed bad light on others because they have been disciplined, so the information that is shared over the hotline is usally based on things that happend many moons ago, but employees want to air everything out now because they are mad at the world.

I used to work for Cummins, Inc. and they did have an ethics hotline.  Initially it was an 800 number but it was later updated to not only having an 800 number, there was a web site a person could go to and register a complaint.  Since Cummins is a global company, any Cummins employee in the world could access the hotline and communicate to someone in their own language.  Cummins took ethics very seriously.  In fact, a few years ago they were recognized as the #1 ethical company in the United States.

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