Ethics Training in Action: An Examination of Issues, Techniques, and Development
- 7h 5m
- Leslie E. Sekerka (ed)
- Information Age Publishing
- 2014
Making sure that performance in business enterprise is achieved ethically is no small task. Leaders, managers, and employees at every level of the organization need to utilize systems and processes that support ethical strength, establishing a workplace where responsibility, accountability, and doing the right thing are genuinely valued and practiced. Management can help support ethical performance in workers’ daily task actions by underscoring the importance of rules and regulations, while also moving to ensure that employees understand and care about doing what’s right. Given that most firms only emphasize compliance in ethics training, there is vast room for additional development. Training people to be less bad is not good enough. With the infusion of mandatory requirements for ethics training programs in some firms and self-imposed initiatives in others, we see a range of deliverables. To advance ethics in practice, a closer look at ethics training in the workplace is warranted.
This volume attempts to better understand ethics in organizational settings by taking a focused look at the science of ethics training and best practices, areas for concern, specific techniques, application outcomes, how to cultivate an ethical work environment, and considering where opportunities for additional inquiry reside. Managers and practitioners reading this book will garner specific trends and useful techniques that can inform, guide, and improve their efforts to build ethical awareness and effective ethical decision-making within their organizations. Academic scholars will find this book useful, providing insight as to where additional research and empirical work is needed.
About the Editor
Leslie E. Sekerka, PhD is a professor of management and the founder and director of the Ethics in Action Research and Education Center at Menlo College (Atherton, CA). Dr. Sekerka's teaching and scholarship is designed to create a proactive approach to applied ethics. Her interests in adult moral development stem from twenty years of work and research in business and military organizations. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on the promotion of strengths in support of personal and organizational growth, ethical decision-making, and professional moral courage in the workplace. Her award winning research appears in a variety of academic venues, including journals, books, and special issues targeting positive organizational ethics. Dr. Sekerka works closely with the Silicon Valley business community as an academic partner at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She is known globally as an ethics training specialist, providing workshops and seminars that help advance employees' moral competencies and build organizational ethical strength. Dr. Sekerka recently won the Charles B. Emerick Award for excellence in teaching.
In this Book
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Enhancing Business Ethics—Prescriptions for Building Better Ethics Training
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Best Practices in Ethics Training—A Focus on Content and Context
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The Tall Order of Tackling Relativism in Ethics Training
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Cross-Cultural Challenges with Ethics Training in China
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Ethics Training and the Prevention of Workplace Bullying—Creating a Healthy Work Environment
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Embedded Sustainability—Creating Ethical Habits through Personal Engagement
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Organizational Ethics Process and Assessment—Intervening to Improve Interventions
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Giving Voice to Values in the Workplace—A Practical Approach to Building Moral Competence
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From Theory to Application—What's Behind Case-Based Ethics Training?
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Strengthening Moral Competencies at Work through Integrity Capacity Cultivation
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Integrity in Public Administration—Lessons Learned
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Exploring Business Ethics Training Practices in Small Firms
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Developing Ethical Leaders—A Servant Leadership Approach
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Appreciative Inquiry and Ethical Awareness—Encouraging Morally Driven Organizational Goals
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Embodied Ethics—A Mentoring and Modeling Approach to Ethics Training
