The trend is unmistakable: The general counsel’s office is morphing into the general counsel/human resources office. Why? Increasing emphasis on employees as key assets; ever-increasing entanglement between the law and the workforce; and a human resources department stretched thin by increased responsibility but decreased personnel. General counsel are forced to look at human resources issues strategically from a 30,000-foot perspective, as well as specifically, at a fight-in-the-trenches level. Let’s talk strategy first.
Perhaps 2003 will see no greater emphasis than in corporate ethics. Doing right, stopping wrong. That’s always important, but it’s even more so with a corporate scandal producing bad P.R. at best and Club Fed at worst. Start by looking at your corporate ethics policy, many of which are convoluted and indecipherable. Here’s one from the Ford Motor Co., talked about in “Net Words,” a book by Nick Usborne. (We’re not picking on Ford, but it is a good example.)
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