A business conduct policy document outlines the organisation’s overall approach to how persons engaged with the organisation conduct themselves from an ethical and behavioural perspective. This is usually a shorter document making up 1-3 pages.

A business conduct policy sets up the organisation’s expectations relating to how persons engaged with the organisation conduct themselves in and outside the operation. This is an important document that should capture the organisation’s ethical objectives as they relate to employee conduct.

This is a human resources document that underpins common process or procedural documents such as an organisation’s code of conduct or the overall culture of a company etc.

A business conduct policy will usually underpin a wider breadth of conduct documentation, including process and procedural documentation, that provide persons engaged with the organisation a comprehensive and clear set of standards and expectations as it relates to their day-to-day conduct (both during and outside business hours).