Shaping your Organization’s Ethical Foundation

Corporate culture drives integrity. Done right, it motivates employees to do their best and roots out ethical dilemmas before they become a problem. This course examines some of the building blocks needed for an ethical organization, with special emphasis placed on HR’s role in shaping organizational culture. HR professionals support executive leadership’s mission and delivery of services in the most ethical manner possible, but what should be done when tension arises between operations and ethics? This course identifies mechanisms to ensure your team is set up for success in creating and maintaining an ethical organization. The scenarios will involve Business Management and Employee and Labor Relations, two main drivers of an ethical corporate culture.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the fundamental ethical principles and various models for ethical decision making
  
• Identify how an organization establishes and maintains an ethical culture
  
• Understand how to implement and assess a code of ethics within an organization
  
• Examine the potential for conflict between individuals, leadership dynamics, and governance and control mechanisms
  
• Explore how to combat dangerous group psychological tendencies
  
• Outline the relationship between ethics and internal controls to monitor ethical compliance
  
• Apply ethical principles to employee relations scenarios from a managerial perspective

Key Topics:

• Ethics
  
• Organizational culture
  
• Business Management and Employee and Labor Relations

Designed for: Managers in HR and/or senior leadership.

Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Charla Welch

Developer: Cultivate People

CPE Credits: 1.6

Area(s) of Study: Behavioral Ethics - Non-technical

YellowBook: No

Prerequisite: None