Business Ethics in Practice
Short course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Short course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
1 Day
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Start date
Different dates available
The course shows how you can take practical steps to reduce the risk of poor decision-making and better align the behaviour of your managers and staff with your corporate values. This course looks at ethical fundamentals and sets them in their proper business context. It demonstrates through practical examples and scenario discussions the importance of personal responsibility and introduces the important 'ethics toolbox'. Suitable for: The course is relevant to people from all sectors involved with internal governance.
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Subjects
- Ethics
- Governance
- Risk
- Staff
- Decision Making
- Discrimination
- Equal Opportunities
- Employee Relations
- Employment Ethics
- Disability
Course programme
The course shows how you can take practical steps to reduce the risk of poor decision-making and better align the behaviour of your managers and staff with your corporate values.
This course looks at ethical fundamentals and sets them in their proper business context. It demonstrates through practical examples and scenario discussions the importance of personal responsibility and introduces the important 'ethics toolbox'.
COURSE CONTENT
Ethical Framework
- Business ethics - a contradiction in terms?
- The RICE model and its limitations
- Development of ethical principles
- Personal responsibility - threats and safeguards
- The honesty question
- Ethical awareness quiz
- Greed quiz
Institutional Safeguards
- Key corporate governance drivers - tone set from the top and bought into by all employees
- Linkage between directors' integrity and corporate reputation
- Corporate policies and how to manage them
- The 'ethics toolbox'
- Value statements
- Codes of conduct
- 'Whistleblowing' hotlines
- Ethical training and development programmes
- Workplace deviancy exercise
Corporate Scandals and What can be Learned from them
- Headline cases summarized
- Threats giving rise to inappropriate behaviour - what makes good people do bad things?
- Matching values and behaviour - the key management challenge
- The Enron scandal - video focus session
The Importance of Ethics to Modern Governance
- Corporate governance agenda for the 21st century
- Key governance issues
- Approaches to the ethical issue
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Professional standards
- Public sector
- Benefits of ethical conduct and best practice governance regimes
- The ethics roadmap - how to combine rules and principles
- Ethical scenarios
Business Ethics in Practice