Ethics and Conduct (V2)

Overview

Today's workplace presents you with many situations where your ethics may be challenged or compromised. Growing business opportunities create new situations. Sometimes people on the job feel pressured to do things they know aren't right.Would you know what to do in such a situation?

Working with a sense of ethics provides for a more conducive work environment, whilst building better trust and lines of communication between employees, management, and internal and external clients, customers, suppliers and vendors.

It is impossible to educate you on every ethical situation you may encounter. We can, however, provide you with a guide and a series of questions that you can ask yourself, which will assist you when faced with an ethical dilemma.

Essential for anyone committed to providing best practice standards of ethical and professional conduct within the workplace, this course aims to provide you with guidance and resources to help you make the right choice if you ever feel pressured to make an unethical choice at work. It will provide you with an understanding of how to behave and conduct yourself in the workplace.

Course Content

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe conduct principles;
• Identify conduct that is professional, responsible and accountable;
• Utilise a five-step decision-making model to help you determine what to do when confronted with an ethical dilemma;
• Ascertain appropriate use and preservation of assets and resources;
• Take the right steps in relation to gifts, favours and hospitality;
• Give examples of disclosable interests and conflict of interests;
• Identify the key components of a Code of Conduct policy.

Duration

1hour (nominal)