Among the many priorities organizational leaders face, ensuring long-term survivavability is a key concern. Engaging in activities that will help reduce corporate liability is a cornerstone to achieving longevity in the business arena. Since the 1950’s, corporate America has experienced a widening gap in society’s expectations of ethical business behavior and the actual ethical conduct of business organizations (leadership review). Ethics training is integral in establishing a positive ethical climate. Unfortunately, the value of ethics training is not always appreciated by employees. People forced to participate in these programs often resent having to spend their time on ethics issues because they believe they already know what’s right and what’s wrong. They think they don’t need an ethics training session to tell them that cheating a customer is wrong (Leadership review). Clearly having strong ethical leadership would be a more effective way to shape long-term ethical behavior. Strong ethical leadership gives the employees an example rather than belittling them by teaching them what is right and wrong. This example treats the employees with more respect and would also create an atmosphere of ownership over one’s ethics. For these reasons, strong ethical leadership would have more of an effect on my ethical behavior rather than a code of ethics combined with ethics training would.