Ensuring an Ethical Business
Establishing ethics standards makes sense for your bottom line.
For Tina Byles Williams, hiring ethical employees is doing the smart thing as much as doing the right thing. The pension funds and other institutions that pay her 10-year-old firm, FIS Group Inc., for investment advice and management naturally expect that none of her 16 employees will make off with their funds. They also expect no conflicts of interest or other improprieties--a matter brought into high relief three years ago when a former employee's activities made Williams consider measures to prevent unethical employee behavior.
Since the incident, the $6 million company has re-examined its process for hiring, evaluating and retaining ethical employees. Williams, 45, now regards hiring ethical employees to be a core mission: "If part of what we're selling is trust, it's critical to hire people of integrity and high ethics."
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