Maintaining an ethical and legally compliant culture is essential to an organization’s long-term success. Unethical and unlawful behavior can occur in any organization, but how quickly the organization responds can dictate whether the ethical culture is strengthened or whether the reputation and health of the organization are put at risk.
Resolving ethical issues requires advanced decision-making skills and keen moral sensibilities. Managers have a responsibility to respond promptly and effectively to ethics and compliance complaints in the workplace. However, they are often not equipped with the right training or tools to handle the difficult situations. To help effectively address and resolve ethical issues that arise in the workplace, this course introduces concepts for: ethical awareness, assessment, decision-making, and action.
Prerequisites
No Advanced Preparation or Prerequisites are needed for this course. However it is suggested to take other Ethics course by Lynn Fountain.
Ethics and Psychology: Part 1
Ethics and Psychology: Part 2
Learning Objective
- Explore the need for an ethical decision-making framework.
- Identify potential frameworks for ethical decision making.
- Recognize the benefits and challenges of each decision-making framework.
- Explore the questions to apply to the decision-making framework.
- Discover how each question may be applied to each framework.
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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
FRAMEWORK FOR ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
- The Need 8:44
- Frameworks 6:48
- Theory Frameworks 12:42
- Consequentialist Framework 6:32
- Duty Framework 4:34
- Virtue Framework 8:31
- Applying the Framworks 6:41
- Deliberative Process 7:22
- Motivation 4:17
- Deliberative Application Business Setting 5:36
- Focus Application Business Setting 6:53
- Motivation in a Business Setting 5:09
CONCLUSION
- Summary 5:34
CONTINUOUS PLAY
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
- Slides: Framework for Ethical Decision Making PDF
- Framework for Ethical Decision Making Glossary/Index PDF
REVIEW AND TEST
- REVIEW QUESTIONS quiz
- FINAL EXAM exam
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