The moral case for a Great Workplace Culture

Businesses play an integral part in a four-way relationship with government, society and the third sector. Each is dependent on the others.
Society provides business with a favourable operational environment (transport systems, public health, safety), limited liability status, a customer base and the skills of trained and well-educated people that it needs to operate successfully.
In return, businesses contribute to the broader society as creators of tax income (corporation tax, income tax, NI and VAT) and prosperity and as providers of goods, services and employment.
The system works best when business, government and society collaborate and work together.
In essence, businesses have corporate citizen status which confers not only rights but obligations and responsibilities towards society and the environment.
Of course, government, through legislation, determines the minimum levels of acceptable behaviour. Businesses nowadays are expected, by their people, customers and society, to go beyond these minimum standards in ethical behaviour.
All of us as individuals and as citizens of this country have a personal responsibility not only to abide by the laws of the land but to act in a way that is ethically correct: to abide by the spirit and not just the letter of the law.

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