How You Will Benefit
Working in an environment with unethical employees can have negative consequences on organizational trust, team-building, communication, and morale. Ethical behavior tends to be a broad term, encompassing accountability, professionalism, and respect. This can make pinpointing behaviors to change difficult. In addition, sometimes individual character changes are in order, but sometimes a company needs to systematically change its culture.
According to the Ethics Research Center, 62 percent of workers in large companies without ethics programs witness misconduct, compared to 33 of workers in large companies with effective ethics programs. The study also showed that within companies with ethics programs, the instances of pressure and retaliation amongst coworkers falls to 4 percent.
In this course, you will learn how to pinpoint unethical behavior, create a plan for an effective ethics program, and deal with unethical co-workers. As a result, you will be able to build organizational trust, have greater integrity when approaching problems, have increased respect among workers, and establish clear standards of ethical behavior.
