| COURSE DESCRIPTION: Some view ethics as a “soft” topic, unrelated to the bottom line. They’re wrong. Imagine your employees believed that your organization tolerated unethical behavior. Not just major corporate wrongdoing but the little stuff that begs the question, “If they bend the minor rules, what else are they doing?” What would that do to the credibility of your leadership? What would happen to morale?
It would plummet, along with productivity, quality and, yes, your profits. No surprise that survey after survey shows that the #1 quality employees seek in leaders is honesty. When star performers see systemic unethical behavior, they leave. Engine room employees may stick around, but won’t deliver “discretionary effort” to leaders they don’t trust or admire.
So, strong ethics ARE correlated to bottom-line results. And you have to ask yourself, “Do our employees perceive us to be an ethical company?” Do employees believe that you’re honest and fair in the way you:
- Hire, promote and develop people?
- Deal with customers, vendors and regulatory agencies?
- Handle employee benefits?
- Reward your workforce?
In this conference our speaker, Linda Gravett, Ph.D., will share her research with more than 500 HR professionals on how to build an ethical organization. Participants will learn:
- The four organization behaviors that tear down trust and credibility – and how HR can help prevent them.
- Why it’s not enough just to be honest and passively communicate that the company is ethical.
- Why organizations – and that means HR executives -- have to proactively establish, communicate, and model the company’s core values.
- The key components of an ethical organization and how HR, because of its visibility and influence, can help establish them
- Five questions that establish an ethical decision making framework
- Why it’s important to have a company Code of Conduct – and how to create one
- How to handle several real-world ethical dilemmas
- The key components of any ethics initiative
- Three “ethics tests” for employees
- The advantages and pitfalls of establishing an ethics hotline
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Linda Gravett, Ph.D., SPHR, founded Gravett and Associates, a human resource development consulting firm, in 1991. Her clients include Toyota, Meridian Bioscience, The Discovery Channel, The Environmental Protection Agency, and The Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati International Airport. She was formerly SHRM’s State Director of Ohio and is on the board of the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI). She is the 1991 recipient of the National Professional Business Woman's Individual Progress Award and the 1999 recipient of SHRM's David Award for Professional Excellence.
 HRCI CERTIFICATION: This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage.
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We’re so confident you’ll get what you want out of this conference that we’ll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It’s risk-free.
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