Ethics Training

Concerns about ethics violations have prompted many organizations to provide ethics training for their employees and managers. Agencies believe that an emphasis on values and ethics is consistent with building up a modern and desirable workplace.

Negative reports of personnel being caught up in unethical conduct tarnish the images of organizations. Ethics is obviously difficult to shape, let alone control. What can organizations realistically expect from ethics training? How can an organization learn from its ethical failings and do better next time?

The purposes of training and development mentioned earlier are well applied to ethics training. Ethics training to ensure that both new and existing employees are aware of important laws and practices—in relation to, say, gift taking, conflict of interest, fraud, and harassment—can be made mandatory, with employees required either to attend workshops or to complete online training. Organizations can hope to reduce their legal exposure and improve their risk management by ensuring that all personnel have been made duly aware of critical laws and policies.

Rather than looking at ethics training as a panacea or silver bullet, managers should view it as one of several tools that they use—along with role modeling, appraisals, and feedback—to instill or change ethical conduct. Although ethics training is useful and needed, we should not overstate its effectiveness; no amount of training can eliminate human folly and misconduct.

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