Ethical Dilemmas and the Law
Module EI | Monday | 2 Ethics hr
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You ~ This program is designed to help you and your organization wade through the gray and ambiguous areas of Business Ethics and give you the tools to consistently make the right decisions. In this course, you will learn:
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Both the simple and complex ethical decisions that may confront you in the workplace
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How unwarranted gains and temptation affect ethical decisions that occur at work
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Common workplace abuses of power, knowledge, access, and relationships
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How to develop and maintain your ethics at work
Ethical Dilemmas and the Law ~ Once you've established the facts and issues of a business ethics problem, you may feel confused about where to go next. Does applying what you know to a particular problem seem a bit daunting? Don't worry. After you understand the problem as best you can, you should check current laws. In this course, you will learn:
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How to research legal issues without becoming a lawyer
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How to research legal issues on the internet
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How to locate legislative statutes, executive orders, court rulings, and administrative regulations
Everyday Ethical Dilemmas
Module EII | Tuesday | 2 Ethics hrs
Ethical considerations arise from everyday concerns in the workplace. You don't usually have a large amount of time to consider and evaluate them. In this course, you will:
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Learn the need for practical Business Ethics
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List some common ethical dilemmas that arise in the workplace
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Examine and evaluate an ethical dilemma
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Learn the definition of the Golden Rule and how to apply the Golden Rule to specific ethical questions
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Learn the definition of the Public Disclosure Test and how to apply the Public Disclosure Test to specific ethical questions
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Learn the definition of the Universalization Test and how to apply the Universalization Test to specific ethical questions
Individual Values; Organizational Values
Module EIII | Wednesday | 2 Ethics hrs
The decisions you make at work are inescapably your decisions. No matter how we might like to blame others for them if they are later exposed as ethically deficient, we must bear some responsibility for having said "yes," when a "no" was possible. Correspondingly, when you make an ethical decision at work, you deserve some of the credit, for you could have easily taken a less-ethical course of action. Knowing more about yourself and understanding the reasons why you have chosen to be the kind of person you are goes a long way toward pushing you in an ethical direction. You can say to yourself: A person with values like mine would act this way and not that way. Values serve as guides toward correct behavior at work. Becoming more familiar with your own values is the goal of this course. In this course, you will learn:
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Personal Value Priorities and how to use value priorities in daily life
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How interests refer to the involvement of all parties in a decision, how to determine the roles you play everyday in your personal life and what values are good or desirable to you.
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How your personal values interact with your professional values, examine some of the value conflicts that arise in the world daily and how to define the values that you use in your personal and professional life
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How to identify your moral principles, develop your moral principles and how to help your moral principles to grow
Building Effective Teams
Module TI | Tuesday | 2 Ethics hrs
Effective teamwork is essential to success in the modern workplace. A team whose members work well together can out perform even the most talented collection of individuals working in isolation. In a very real sense, the "team" is greater than the sum of its parts. In this course, you will learn to:
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Establish direction and goals for teams using a team charter
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Define roles and rules to clarify the responsibilities of team members
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Establish accountability to provide both positive and negative consequences for the behaviors of team members
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Identify positive team behavior to encourage cooperation and collaboration
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Make teamwork part of the corporate culture
Leading Effective Teams
Module TII | Wednesday | 2 Ethics hrs
Leadership is the single most important ingredient in achieving consistent peak performance in teams. With good leadership, "ordinary" people can achieve "extraordinary" results. In this course, you will learn to:
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Demonstrate team-leadership skills as a team lead
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Explain the importance of developing communication skills
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Discuss the importance of conflict-management
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Establish a good decision making and problem solving process
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Design a comprehensive reward system for individual and team-based rewards
