Ethics OfficerHowever, eliminating unethical behavior doesn't just stop with education. Companies must be governed in all their business transactions. The proposal is that all companies listed on the stock exchange and with shareholders should hire an ethics officer. The ethics officer will be immune from unjustified dismissal. They will not be part of an at-will employment doctrine (Cross & Miller, 2012). It is proposed that the ethics officer also serves on the company's board of directors and has the ability to override all unethical decisions. The ethics officer will not be paid by the company but part of his salary will come from shareholder investments. Not only will they govern the company, but the ethics officer will be responsible for ensuring that training is provided to all staff on an annual basis and every time a new employee is hired they will have to take an ethics course provided by the ethics officer. . Workplace ethics will be the only job the officer does. The only duty of the ethics officer is not to protect the company but to protect the company, shareholders and stakeholders from any unethical actions that could potentially harm them. They will not be employed as enemies of society, but as protectors and supporters of society ensuring that society acts responsibly and ethically. If Enron and Arthur Anderson had effective ethics officers they would not have collapsed so badly. Both the companies and the people who ran them will always have a bad reputation and will always be responsible for taking many people's retirements and saving money knowing that they were cheating on the numbers and knowing... middle of paper... .. .business. (8th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.Ethisphere. (2011). The World's Most Ethical Companies 2011. Retrieved from: http://ethisphere.com/wme2011/Ferrell, O., Fraedrich, J., & Ferrell, L. (2011). Business Ethics (8th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage.Gomstyn, A. (2010). Walmart CEO pay: More in an hour than workers earn all year? Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470Indiacsr. (2010). Corporate social responsibility concept. Retrieved from http://www.indiacsr.in/en/?p=113PBS. (2002). Who dropped the ball? Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/regulation/watchdogs/Serving History (2011). Enron: Ancient History. Retrieved from http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Enron::sub::Early_HistoryUCCS. (2010). UCCS awarded a $1.25 million grant for business ethics. Extracted from,