To improve ethical behavior, we build ethics codes, conduct ethics training, and emphasize an ethical tone at the top. Research shows, though, that these traditional initiatives too often harm ethical reasoning more than they help. We inaccurately predict how people will respond to behavioral initiatives and teach ethics using ineffective approaches. This class explains what actually works in the real world and what does not. We will answer questions such as why we make choices that contradict our own ethical beliefs and why we falsely recollect our decisions as being ethical when they were not. We will apply what we learn to be able to improve our future ethical behavior at the individual and organizational levels.
Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
Distinguish between characteristics of effective versus ineffective ethics codes
Identify at least one common misunderstanding about tone at the top
Recognize why traditional ethics training doesn’t improve ethical reasoning
Highlights
Why ethics codes fail
How tone at the top affects organizational decision making
Why traditional ethics training results in ethical failures
How to recognize unconscious defense mechanisms
Making decisions under pressure
Who Will Benefit
Analysts, auditors, governance and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers, and other decision-makers interested in having a deeper understanding of ethical reasoning.
Credits
| Category |
Amount |
| Behavioral Ethics |
4.00 |
