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Transcending Transformation: Enlightening Endeavours at Tata Steel

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It is indeed a challenge for corporations to insulate themselves from the adverse conditions around and foster an organizational culture that ensures ethical behaviour. In their effort to foster and maintain such an organizational culture, corporations through various endeavours try to institutionalize ethics. A successful strategy that aims to institutionalize ethics starts with developing/adopting and implementing codes of conduct and duly complements with ethics education and management. This paper captures the enlightening endeavours of Tata Steel relating to institutionalizing ethics and its impact on transformation within the corporation and its transcendence beyond.

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  1. Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, D. H. Road, Joka, Kolkata, India, PIN 700 104

    S Elankumaran

  2. Ethics Counsellor, The Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, Jamshedpur, India, PIN 831 001

    Rekha Seal

  3. Senior Manager Ethics, The Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, Jamshedpur, India, PIN 831 001

    Anwar Hashmi

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Anwar HashmiS Elankumaran is OCL Visiting Asst. Professor at Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He may be reached at kumaran@iimcal.ac.in & elankumaran@hotmail.com. Ms. Rekha Seal is Ethics Counsellor at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India. She may be reached at ethics.counsellor@tatasteel.com & rekhaseal@lot.tatasteel.com Anwar Hashmi is Senior Manager – Ethics at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India. He may be reached at anwarhashmi@tatasteel.com

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Elankumaran, S., Seal, R. & Hashmi, A. Transcending Transformation: Enlightening Endeavours at Tata Steel. J Bus Ethics 59, 109–119 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-005-3400-5

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