In these days of increasing evidence of questionable ethical practices, many organizations, communities, and business schools are committing to ethics pledges as a means of underscoring the importance of ethical standards of behavior in today’s society. Using Internet research, find two examples of such pledges and answer the following questions:

a. Why did you select these two examples specifically?

b. Why did each entity choose to make an ethical pledge?

c. In what ways are the pledges similar and different?

d. If you proposed the idea of an ethics pledge at your school or job, what do you think the reaction would be?