Transcript Workplace Ethics

Workplace
Ethics
Program Objectives
(1 of 3)
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Understand what workplace
ethics compasses.

Why you should be ethical and
what you get out of being ethical.
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Identify how ethics affect
teamwork, productivity and the
public image.
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Program Objectives
(2 of 3)
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Understand ethic codes, values
and ethic programs.
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Learn how to set up and
implement ethic programs, and
how to deal with it’s special
challenges.
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Program Objectives
(3 of 3)
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Explore different ethical styles
and learn how to address and
resolve ethical dilemmas.
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Learn how to make moral
decisions.
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Follow guidelines to create an
effective code of conduct.
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Ethics: Two Examples #1
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Imagine that one day someone in
your organization walks in with a
copy of your chief competitor's
bid on a big contract.
– They swear they got it legally,
although you are not certain.
– Whether they did or did not, it
remains proprietary information.
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Ethics: Two Examples #1
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Are you going to use it in
developing your bid?
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Ethics: Two Examples #2
What if someone in sales is up
against some very tough
quarterly objectives.
 But they can be achieved by
concealing from a customer that
the product being sold will be
made obsolete by a new line in
six months.
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Ethics: Two Examples #2
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Is the behavior of the
salesperson justifiable?
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Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
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These cases have two things in
common:
– how they are handled can
dramatically help or hurt your
organization and they are both
examples of ethical issues.
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Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
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Ethical problems are inevitable at
all levels of a business:
– this means that it is simply good
sense for companies to take the
task of institutionalizing ethics in
their organizations seriously.
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Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
The number of ethic programs in
corporations is growing as their
usefulness becomes increasingly
more evident.
 CEO's of ethically committed
corporations believe:
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– no matter how large the financial
gain may be from doing something
unethical, there is a cost
somewhere else in the business.
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Debrief:
An Organization’s Actions
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CEO's who have committed their
corporations to ethics have done
so in the name of maximizing
long-term profits and fostering
the health of their organizations.
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172 slides include: understanding workplace
ethics, what it affects, benefits of workplace
ethics, slides on ethic codes, codes of conduct,
values, ethic programs, required resources,
two ethical styles, 3 steps to resolve ethical
dilemmas and how to address ethical
dilemmas, guidelines and slides on
implementing ethic programs, detecting 6 key
roles and responsibilities, guidelines for moral
decision making, 10 common ethic code
provisions, 15 slides on creating an effective
code of conduct, and more.
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