15 Reproducible Activities for Reinforcing Business Ethics and Values

Author

• Peter Garber

Produced

• 2005

Key Features

This book contains 15 easy-to-use activities that can be used individually or as a whole to reinforce your company's ethics and values, and inspire employees to recommit to responsible business behavior.

In today's business climate, simply having an ethics policy in place isn't enough. You must continually keep ethics up front and center to avoid the ethical violations--and erosion of confidence--since in corporate America today.

Individual employees, teams, and groups will participate in engaging role plays, discussion and case studies to:

• Better understand the importance of ethics in all aspects of life
• Explore their personal beliefs and values concerning ethics
• Examine the role that ethics and values play in business

Each activity:

• Focuses on a unique concept or principle.
• Comes with helpful tips for presenting the activity.
• Includes debriefing points you can review with employees after the complete the activity.

Samples of real-life ethical situations addressed:

• An employee who uses the copy machine for personal reasons.
• A sales rep who makes promises to a potential customer about extra services that the company will provide to get their business.
• A government purchasing agent who awards highway construction contracts to a firm that just happened to be building a new home for him.
• A CEO of a large corporation who accepts a multi-million-dollar salary incentive bonus for a year in which the company lost an unprecedented amount of money forcing layoffs of 30 percent of its employees.