ABSTRACT

Organizational development (OD) consultants have shown a long and continued interest in professional ethics. In their writings and in their actions, they have expressed a concern for maintaining an exemplary level of professional conduct. Unlike many of their consultant counterparts, whose lack of attention to ethics and law borders on “culpable negligence” (Redding, 1990, p. 1.), OD professionals have demonstrated an ongoing concern for professional ethical conduct and the integration of ethical principles in their consultancies (e.g., Schein 1987; Montgomery and Vogt, 1990a; 1990b; Montgomery, Vogt, and Pincus, 1992),