Any businessperson is interested in knowing the position of his/her company in the market in what concerns ethics. For this purpose, it is imperative to identify the ethical level of Brazilian organizations. Based on the ethical climate of an organization, an indicator was created to evaluate a firm's degree of eticity, in a pioneer research project in Brazil. The objective of this study is to encourage the executive to pay attention to the ethical quality of his/her organization, providing information and offering a service that has been developed by the CENE (Center of Studies for Ethics in the Organizations)/EAESP/FGV in partnership with the Ethics Resource Center, in Washington, DC, USA, since 1998. The methodology for creating the indicators, as well as its application to the manufacturing industry, is presented in the article.
Indicators of ethics; business ethics indicators; business ethics in Brazil; organizational ethical climate