Documents that state significant philosophical principles and clarify the values ​​represented within an organization are known as codes of ethics. For these codes to be considered effective they must be able to define an organization's responsibilities towards stakeholders, the conduct expected of employees (Kaptein & Wempe, 2002) and articulate the organisation's ethical parameters of what is acceptable and what is not (Stevens, 1994). While behavior, of course, refers to the ethical behavior of individuals in organizations. Employee behaviors are specifically designed to be influenced by codes, regardless of the scope of the script. As much as codes are used to reinforce social responsibility and explain organizational norms and values, it would be equally important to consider how codes can influence behavior. Numerous systems and methods, along with the inclusion of ethical codes, will be considered to demonstrate the effects of ethical behavior; these include the analysis of the link between control mechanisms and their correlation with the primary components of a management system. As well as describing how an ethical culture and successful communication flow improves ethical behavior among employees. In effect these methods are used as an overall message, created by the company in an attempt to instill behavior and effect change through explicit declarations of acceptable behavior (Stevens, 1994). Codes of ethics are written to guide behavior, and therefore any analysis of the impact of a code must include its effectiveness on behavior. Contemporary social psychological research such as that conducted by Ferrell and Gresham as part of their contingency model suggests that, “Business ethics related… half of paper… C. and W. D. Richardson: 1994, 'Ethical Decision Making: a review of the empirical literature», Journal of Business Ethics 13, 203-221.11. Bowden, P, & Smythe, B. (2008). Make codes of ethics meaningful and effective. Keep good company. 1(1), 584-588.12. Stevens, B. (2008). Corporate Codes of Ethics: effective tools to influence behavior? . Journal of Business Ethics. 78(4), 601-609.13. Trevino, L. K., G. R. Weaver, D. Gibson and B. L Toeffler: 1999, 'Managing ethics and legal compliance: what works and what hurts', California Management Review 41 (2), 131-151.14. Schwartz, M.: 2004, 'Effective corporate codes of ethics: perceptions of code users', Journal of Business Ethics 55, 323-343.15. IFAC. (2007). Definition and development of an effective code of conduct for organizations. Chartered Accountants in the Company Committee. 1 (3), 8-21.