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Workplace Ethics

Program Objectives (1 of 3)

Understand what workplace ethics compasses.

Why you should be ethical and what you get out of being ethical.

Identify how ethics affect teamwork, productivity and the public image.

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Understand ethic codes, values and ethic programs.

Learn how to set up and implement ethic programs, and how to deal with it’s special challenges.



Explore different ethical styles and learn how to address and resolve ethical dilemmas.

Learn how to make moral decisions.

Follow guidelines to create an effective code of conduct.



Two Ethical Styles:

Ethics: Two Examples #1

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.



Are you going to use it in developing your bid?



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.



Is the behavior of the salesperson justifiable?


Debrief: An Organization’s Actions

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.



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.



The number of ethic programs in corporations is growing as their usefulness becomes increasingly more evident.

CEO's of ethically committed corporations believe:

– no matter how large the financial gain may be from doing something unethical, there is a cost somewhere else in the business.



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: 7 points on two examples, 8 points on an organization’s actions, 13 points on what workplace ethics is, 6 points on why you need to be ethical, 11 points on ethics programs, 7 points on ethics programs as insurance, 3 points on ethics programs creating citizenship, 4 points on ethics programs building values, 5 points on ethics programs building image, 8 points on ethics programs offering more, 10 points on codes of values, 11 principles, 6 points on why have a code of ethics, 19 points on why have a code of conduct, 4 resources required, 22 points on ethics of justice, 18 points on ethics of care, 32 points on the 4 steps of resolving ethical dilemmas, 16 points on ethics programs, 19 points on structure, 7 points on publicizing commitment, 9 points on training, 9 points on managing ethics as a process, 6 points on the bottom line, 4 points on avoiding ethical dilemmas, 5 point on custom made to fit you, 5 points on consulting key stakeholders, 8 points on bewaring of outsourcing, 6 points on grant forgiveness, 5 points on mistakes, 11 points on special challenges, 28 points on key roles and responsibilities in ethics management, 46 points on decision making guides, 49 common ethic code provisions, 52 points on writing a code of ethics, and finally16 action steps.

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