BALANCING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Key Features

Going beyond the typical business ethics workshop, this curriculum series focuses on a very important objective in professional ethics training. The course centers on not only developing ethics in the workplace, but also transferring those ethic principles to your own personal beliefs. In this manner, professional ethics training can be long-lasting and practices go beyond the office.

Concentration in this ethics training course includes but is not limited to understanding how beliefs are formed, as well as the negative consequences of unethical behavior. The full line of business ethics workshops available from the Richardson Company can dramatically impact the productivity of your company.

This fully reproducible new trainer's guide goes beyond just talking about ethics in the workplace. It utilizes thought-provoking activities and case studies to stimulate new thinking and new ways for making sound ethical decisions.

To complement this process the guide includes a tool called the Ethical Question Cycle and step-by-step guidelines for developing a code of ethics. All the training material is fully reproducible, and is offered in a sequence that prompts participants to examine how their personal ethics impacts relationships with co-workers, management, and customers.

As the trainer, your goal is to provide an environment for all participants to share their ideas and feelings. This guidebook will show you how. Each chapter contains notes for the facilitator along with approximate time limits for each explanation, activity, and summary exercise.

Includes workshop designs for 2-hour, half day, and full day sessions. Training Objectives

• Heighten the professional ethical standards of all employees.
• Integrate ethical reasoning with other work behaviors.
• Enhance employee commitment to developing a code of ethics.

Selected Contents

• Steps in Making Ethical Decisions
• Ethical Choices
• How Personal Ethics are Formed
• Consequences of Unethical Behavior
• Rewards of Ethical Behavior
• Challenging Professional Ethics
• Ethics: Preserve or Compromise
• A Code of Ethical Standards