Glad to see DynCorp taking these steps and I hope they make good with their promise of ‘strengthening it’s ethics programs’. But what DynCorp really needs to focus on, is insuring they hire the right folks into positions of management. The quality of leadership out there is what will make or break your company out there. Some ethics program manager posted in a nice comfortable office at headquarters will not be an effective tool for monitoring your management.
It is a nice visual step, but the focus needs to be on the folks that will implement your ethics policies in the first place–the leaders. And if your high paid managers suck, then get rid of them. Matter of fact, get rid of the regional manager in charge of that guy as well, because obviously he didn’t care enough about company policy or doing things right to keep things in check. Remember the Sun Tzu and the 360 Concubines story I posted? Well have the courage to do what is right, and get rid of your poor managers with authority.
Send the message to your leadership that you demand excellence, and the rest will follow. You actually have to care about what is happening out in the field, dedicate the necessary resources to monitor what is going on out in the field, and correct things as quickly as possible.