Integrity in the Workplace

Categories: Professional Skills

Workplace ethics and integrity go beyond the realm of individual employee values. Ethics are an integral part of an organization’s public reputation. Ethical lapses within an organization can devastate the company, ruin an individual or department’s credibility, and invite costly litigation in today’s litigious business environment.

In other words, building workplace integrity is about creating a workplace that fosters the development of high professional standards, and demonstrates the values of the organization. This course delivers key strategies that will build solid reputations and provide a comprehensive and big picture approach to “doing the right thing, the right way for the right reason.”

What Participants Will Learn

  • Grasp the big picture: How to recognize the consequences of individual ethical dilemmas
  • Identify the most common unethical behaviors that occur in organizations
  • Demonstrate personal commitment to your organization’s culture of integrity
  • Differentiate between legality and ethics
  • Establish a personal code of ethics to help guide day-to-day behavior and decision making by communicating standards of conduct to employees
  • Recognize, reinforce and model ethical and compliant behavior
  • Manage behaviors from those around you – What to do when a coworker, boss or others within the organization act unethically or without integrity