If not, let us fashion one. I would suggest that we consider innovation as a species of the genus intelligence. The we need to be comfortable with process and change. The Journal of Business Ethics tells us that the managerial philosophy of Total Quality Management is 'just what the ethicist ordered'. The pursuit of Excellence is a goal common to education and ethics alike.
Moral growth is the necessary concomitant of true ethical searching.
After hearing concerns from a teachers' association that a proposed ethics policy for teachers and other employees infringed on First Amendment rights and equated professionalism with loyalty to management, the Montgomery County school administration has agreed to try a rewrite. Board member Donald Lacy suggested showing the draft to all division employees, not just teachers. Christiansburg member David Moore suggested streamlining the four-page document into a short and more general statement on ethics. The draft, she said, inappropriately linked adherence to the ethics of a profession with loyalty to an employer. Superintendent Herman Bartlett said the intent was to prepare the school system to move toward a more site-based management scheme, where teachers would have more of a role in decision making and thus more responsibility.