Stock Exchange

Question

“Ethics”  Please respond to the following:

• The SEC released its final rule to implement a code of ethics under SOX Title 404. The stock exchanges have proposed that each company listed on the exchanges publishes its code of ethics. Discuss whether or not these additional disclosures will both have a positive impact on public confidence and influence investors’ behavior. Support your position.
• Evaluate the impact that a company’s code of conduct can have on promoting positive employee behavior, improved decision making, or the willingness to report unethical behavior of coworkers. Recommend at least two ethical policies that might encourage employees to report unethical behavior.

Question

Using newspapers, trade press publications, or other sources, locate a current example in which an organization’s compensation strategy or policy was ineffectively designed or otherwise inappropriate. Examples might revolve around pay secrecy, weak performance-bonus links, or paying overlapping incentives. Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you explain the origins and reasoning behind the compensation policy, and then answer the following questions:

· What negative effects did the company suffer as a result? How could the compensation strategy have been more properly planned or structured and how would that have mitigated the negative effects?