Teaching Paper: Developing Ethics Frameworks for Consulting Practices
Practical Templates for Building Integrity, Accountability, and Trust
Author: Dr. Anna Neya Kazanskaia
Publisher: NEYA Global | NEYA Global Publishing
Journal: NEYA Global Journal of Non-Profit Studies (ERDO)
Year: 2025
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5669-1676
DOI: 10.64357/neya-gjnps-teaching-ethics-frameworks-2025
https://doi.org/10.64357/neya-gjnps-teaching-ethics-frameworks-2025
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About the Article
This Teaching Paper introduces practical templates for developing ethics frameworks that ensure transparency, accountability, and trust in non-profit consulting. It distinguishes between a basic framework for small organizations beginning to formalize ethical standards and a detailed framework suited for complex, multi-stakeholder environments. The paper highlights key principles—integrity, respect, accountability, and transparency—and translates them into concrete guidelines on conflict of interest, confidentiality, and professional conduct. A case study of a mid-sized international NGO illustrates how organizations can evolve from adopting a simple framework to embedding comprehensive ethical models, such as the PLUS Model, into daily practice. Designed as both a teaching and practice-oriented resource, the paper emphasizes that ethics frameworks are living systems requiring ongoing reflection, training, and revision.
Key Topics
- Core principles: integrity, accountability, transparency, respect
- Basic Ethics Framework: structure for small organizations
- Detailed Ethics Framework: policies for complex stakeholder contexts
- Conflict of interest: disclosure and management
- Confidentiality standards and data protection
- Decision-making models: PLUS Model, Ethical Cycle
- Training, monitoring, and reporting mechanisms
- Case application: NGO transition from basic to detailed framework
Academic Value
This Teaching Paper bridges ethics theory and applied consulting by converting foundational principles into adaptable templates. It supports pedagogy in professional ethics and development studies, while offering practitioners ready-to-use structures for policy design, training, and governance. The resource emphasizes continuous improvement—embedding monitoring and feedback loops to keep ethics frameworks current, context-sensitive, and enforceable.
Suggested Citation
Kazanskaia, A. N. (2025). Teaching Paper: Developing Ethics Frameworks for Consulting Practices — Practical Templates for Building Integrity, Accountability, and Trust. NEYA Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.64357/neya-gjnps-teaching-ethics-frameworks-2025
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