Course description
How to tackle everyday business decisions to protect your organization’s reputation.
In one information-packed day, you’ll learn how to:
- Encourage open and honest workplace discussions about ethics
- Set an example with follow-the-leader behaviors that all managers and supervisors should be following
- Include ethics as part of your company’s performance appraisal system
- Develop, implement and enforce a written ethics policy
- Understand how ethics should impact your organization’s customer service - both internally and externally
- Recognize that ethics go far beyond what’s legally required
- Ensure your mission statement includes references to your organization’s commitment to better business ethics
- Structure interview questions to uncover unethical tendencies in applicants
- React rationally to a person whose personal beliefs conflict with your organization’s ethics policies
- And much, much more!
Solid Business Ethics Equals a Spotless Reputation
Your organization’s reputation is based on the work you produce and the public face you present, in other words — your credibility. Don’t damage your company’s image by practicing poor ethics! If you establish an ethical foundation for your business, you’ll reap the rewards of improved teamwork, positive employee morale, lower levels of stress and a stronger public image.
Not exactly sure where to start when it comes to business ethics? It’s defined as the branch of ethics that examines rules and principles within a commercial context. In short, there are many moral problems that can come up in a business setting, and you need to ensure your employees areDOING THE RIGHT THING.
14 Issues of Business Ethics
- Accounting and financial standards (a.k.a. creative accounting)
- Advertising deception
- Black market sales
- Bribery and kickbacks
- Business intelligence and industrial espionage
- Political contributions
- Competition vs. cooperation
- Corporate governance
- Corporate crime
- Discrimination
- Employee rights
- Environmental issues
- Marketing, sales, and negotiation techniques
- Product issues
Training content
- History
- Overview
- Corporate Ethics Areas
- Ethics in Practice
- International Issues
- Responsible Business Conduct Through Ethical Relationships
- Code of Ethics Implementation
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Pryor Learning
Founded more than 50 years ago when Fred Pryor pioneered the "one-day seminar", Pryor Learning has become one of the nation's leading corporate training providers, offering in-person and online training to millions of individuals and organizations — from small and...