Few would dispute that the complexity
of today's business world gives rise to a host of ethical
dilemmas. But, when confronted with an ethical dilemma, what
criteria are considered in arriving at a solution? Different
ethical systems place different emphases on what is important
and on whose interests are at stake in the decision making
process. How many different ethical systems seem to be operating
in your organization? Do their interests invariably conflict?
These questions and many other topics will be considered as
the participant is introduced to and explores a variety of
ethical systems in the context of today's global marketplace.
This seminar will explore that process by which an ethical
system arrives at what is good and will introduce a variety
of historical ethical systems. Topics considered in the seminar
include:
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What is Ethics?
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Community as an Idea, Community in Practice, Community
in Common
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Seven Major Ethical Systems
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Learning to Ask the Right Questions
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Problems & Conflicts in Business Life
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Ethics of Voluntary Action & Responsibility
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Understanding Ideals such as Honor, Integrity, &
Justice
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Merely thinking about ethics is
one thing, acting ethically is another. One component of maintaining
an ethical corporate climate is the personal ethics of the
individuals involved. This seminar, at the very least, encourages
participants to explore why they act as they do and to
consider the relationship of acting with ethics. Does one
act purely out of duty? Can we discern and do the right thing
at the right time for the right reason? Do we act for the
sake of immediate personal gain and immediate gratification,
for the sake of another, for the sake of the community? How
about in terms of a pleasure and pain consideration or the
lesser of two evils? At some level we all act out of what
we perceive is "good". This seminar compels the
participant to consider, "What ought I do and why?"
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Negotiating in a Multi-ethical World
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Personal Character Development
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Understanding Integrity
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Reading the Ethics of Others
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Managing Perception: Avoiding the Appearance of Impropriety
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This seminar is designed to help
individuals better control their own emotional responses and
assess the behavior of others. Many training programs focus
on symptoms. Public Virtues helps the participant consider
what it is that is at the heart of conflict. Drawing on anthropology
and psychology, as well as identifying the underlying physiological
phenomena, this course offers employees and managers alike,
a set of diagnostic tools to identify potential for conflict
both
personally as well as in others. With these skills everyone
from management to the front line can pro-actively intercede
before conflict leads to violence.
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What is anger?
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Understanding Emotional Triggers
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Analyzing Emotional Response for Change
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Identifying & Defraying the Causes of Violent Behavior
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In the multicultural global marketplace,
understanding the differences among the multiple cultural
systems requires a deeper knowledge of the origins of those
differences. Ethics is an important determinant on the shape
of a culture's landscape its political and economic systems,
social arrangements and its business practices. What may be
ethical in one culture may not be so in another. This seminar
explores several major movements, religious and otherwise,
and their impact on the development of subsequent ethical
systems with an emphasis on how business practices will vary
from one culture to another as a result. Seminar topics include:
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Sources of Ethical Traditions
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Ethics in Major Systems
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Translating Ethics into Action
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World-wide Ethical Tenets
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Moving Between Ethical Systems
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Differing Views of Individual and Community
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This advanced seminar, designed for the executive or manager
wishing to create an ethical corporate climate, explores the
often tenuous relationship of the individual and the community
with respect to ethics. Regardless of economic conditions,
management at all levels is faced with finding an ethical
balance between the competing interests of the corporation,
employees, consumers, and shareholders. What is considered
"good" at any moment in time will influence the
decision-making process of management, individual employees,
and consumers alike. Hence, this seminar offers managers an
ethical toolbox filled with systems by which to strive for
making the right decision, at the right time, for the right
reason. This seminar asks the question, As a corporation what
ought we do and why? Seminar topics include:
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What is Community?
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Understanding Shared Existence
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Analyzing the Corporate Mission
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Identifying the Ethical Core beneath Corporate Policy
& Decision Making
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The Paradoxes of Relationships Among Corporation, Individual,
Consumer, & Stockholder
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Management as a Balancing Act
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Managing for a Positive Climate
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Fostering Good Corporate Habits
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