Not so long ago this might have featured somewhere on the corporate agenda but would probably have been entirely a matter for the Public or Corporate Affairs Department working with their PR people. New organisational structures are less hierarchical and the Board and senior executives are expected to take a strategic approach to the development and delivery of company policy. Consequently an issue as pervasive as corporate ethics has to be embraced by all key business functions. The result is that Procurement can no longer leave it to others but has to get actively engaged in defining and delivering policy.
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