An organization's Code of Conduct and its Ethics Code serve as the foundation of any compliance and ethics program.  The CoC and the EC  are not the same and often should be separately stated. The Code of Conduct focuses on legal requirements, on preserving the corporate assets.  The Ethics Code focuses on corporate values, on promoting the corporate culture.

Contrary to the practices of many companies, an Ethics Code should come before a legal set of rules are thrust out as a Code of Conduct.  You cannot get effective compliance until you have a willingness to comply!

Corporate-Ethics.US™ offers Ethics Code services, from writing or updating the Code to creating executive and workforce training on the Code

Good corporate governance is more than mere compliance with a checklist of external, legally mandated, requirements.  Good corporate governance ensures that individual employees conform to a broader set of conduct values, as embodied in an Ethics Code of the company or in a Statement of Values. 

By effectively defining and enforcing an Ethics Code, senior management reduces company exposure to the much larger and complicated set of legal requirements.