Q: Why is the Center for Corporate Ethics (CCE) separate from the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE)?

A: CCE, a brand of IGE, concentrates its practice on helping business clients achieve sustainable gains in strengthening and measuring progress in their ethical cultures. IGE also works in education, government, philanthropy, and the nonprofit realm.

Q: What differentiates CCE from other ethics providers?

A: CCE draws on IGE's 15 years of global experience and research, distilling IGE's unique Ethical Fitness® tools and developing them to serve the equally unique corporate environments we encounter.

Q: What can CCE do for my company?

A: We can analyze your company's ethical climate, support corporate values with employee values, design a decision-making framework that supports the values-driven code of conduct, and track progress. We also help the communications effort to keep ethics alive on every desktop.

Q: Why is CCE's methodology unique?

A: Our efforts "pull" employees into a stronger culture by harnessing the power of their personal values and encouraging their sense of personal responsibility, rather than by "pushing" them into compliant behavior with threats and consequences. We can cover the same regulatory territory, but by engaging your workforce positively rather than negatively, we expect to gain their cooperation.

Q: What are the values that CCE employs?

A: We draw on research and techniques made possible by IGE to identify the positive, ethical values that support your employees' most important decisions. We find similar values in place around the globe and have experience in uniting them with the corporate values typically written into codes of ethics and conduct. Naturally, we are experienced in creating and refreshing corporate codes.

Q: Why does CCE distinguish between ethics and compliance?

A: We say that compliance is what we are forced to do, whereas ethics is what we do because it's right. The goals are the same — excellent behavior — but the perspectives are different, cooperative rather than coercive.