Abstrakt:
The article presents principal features and three main pillars of an effective
ethical policy, i.e. instruments, processes and structures. Under instruments, mainly
ethical codes, risk management and whistleblowing are introduced. The part dealing
with processes focuses on four areas: conceptualisation and design, communication and
implementation, monitoring and assessment, and revision. Ethical commissions, ethics
officers and ethics and compliance departments, as well as communication channels
serve as examples of supporting structures. Through the experience of enlightened
private and public organisations, some leading universities world-wide, as well as their
own experience from the public administration, the authors provide recommendations
how to develop a systemic approach to ethics management of universities in the Czech
Republic. Some first elementary empirical findings on ethical codes and ethical
commissions existing in the Czech Republic are also presented.
