However such codes can help ethical organisations to set standards.
Applying your conscience to your finances is easy – especially as tomorrow marks the start of the annual Good Money Week, when ethical organisations get a chance to shout a bit more about the good they're doing.
The young are enthusiastic bank-switchers.Less than a third of 18- to 24-year-olds believe their bank acts in a fair and transparent way and under a quarter consider them to be ethical organisations, according to a report by Accenture, a management consultancy.
"It is very unfortunate that a body like the Co-op, which purports to be a wholly ethical organisation, should be at the bottom of something like this.
"It's alright saying you want to be a more ethical organisation with less impact on supply chains, but that's a very broad brief," says Miers. "Exactly how are you going to achieve it?
A Northumberland FA statement read: "The NFA prides itself on being a fair, democratic and ethical organisation". Northumberland FA's board and council added that the decision to revisit the case was a "necessary, proportionate and correct response to concerns raised both within the NFA, our member organisations and the general public.
Which is all very awkward, because that appears to be a very wordy way of saying Ginola does not even pass the code of ethics at one of the least ethical sporting organisations there has ever been.
Leadership has a crucial role in shaping ethical organisational culture through leaders' moral behaviour, corporate mission, vision and values, ethical criteria for recruiting/selection/promotions, evaluation processes and monitoring, ethical training programs, applying ethical values to decision making, everyday routine and in intra-organisation procedures and structures (Melé, 2012).
Recently, however, ethical tourism organisations and NGOs have been spreading the word that visitors can be a boon to such precious areas, bringing income and promoting conservation.
Twin, an ethical trading organisation, is engaging with smallholder groundnut producers in Malawi to address the stringent health and safety regulations needed to import products to Europe.
The scheme is a joint project run by the Ministry of Justice and Social Finance, an ethical banking organisation.
