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| Name | EthicsAssurance Canadian Learning Circle |
| Project Lead | David Nitkin |
| Email | info@ethicscan.ca |
| Project Status | Pending |
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| External Website | http://www.ethicsassurance.org/ |
| Areas of Interest | Codes of Conduct; Corporate Social Responsibility; Labour - Employee; Labour - Health & Safety; Sustainability |
| Region | Ontario |
| Summary | EthicScan has been working with partners and Beta test clients in the US, UK and Canada to design one holistic, integrated, web-based, on-line organizational assessment tool for companies and organizations. |
| Description | Since the late 1980s companies, in many sectors where corporate responsibility is seen as an issue, have been experimenting with Social and Ethical Accounting, Auditing and Reporting (SEAAR). In the last five years there are a first generation of new tools to assist organizations with whistle blowing, self auditing, ethics advice, sustainability education, and the like. In the last two years, EthicScan has been working with partners and Beta test clients in the US, UK and Canada to design one holistic, integrated, web-based, on-line organizational assessment tool for companies and organizations.
This tool, called EthicsAssurance, has some unusual dimensions. For one, it is the first instrument that contains a comparative, performance benchmarking and comparison functionality across such fields as governance, ethics, environment, fiscal probity, human resources, and community responsibilities. For another, it will allow select university researchers to access real time corporate responsibility data on an anonymous basis for companies who are subscribers.
The goal is to look at several of these tools, and focus upon the potential they hold for innovative research. The first step in the process of evaluation will be taken by joining a US "learning circle" that is engaged in just this sort of evaluation. Anyone in the research community in Canada who is interested in participating in this evaluative process should contact Wes Cragg, CBERN Project Director, wcragg@schulich.yorku.ca.
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| Lead Organization | EthicScan |
| Start date | 2008 |
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