Making the Case for Ongoing and Interactive Organizational Ethics Training

HRDV 5000\

August 20, 2012

Making the Case for ongoing and interactive organizational ethics training

Three Main Points

1. Ethics Should be valued more in training

* We live in a society that lacks ethical decision making.

* Greed can change someone’s ability to make the correct ethical decision

* Grey areas equal huge problems

2. Ethical training should be interactive and ongoing in a Organization

* This is a challenge to organizations and HRD professionals

* Most employees and supervisors brush this off.

* Barley touched on (orientation or the business coed of Ethics)

* The ever changing work environment.

3. Ethics have been overlooked in Higher Education settings.

* The ideal of business ethics turn of college students

* Instill a good belief system at your University, have that carry over to their profession

* This is the reason ethics are down played in organizations

Why this article was Interesting to me

* Ethics have always been important to me and influence every major decision I make.

* Interested to see the ways HRM and organizations are dealing with the ever changing workforce

* Wanted to see what the overall feel ethics have in the workforce

How this article Pertains to Ch 1 Introduction to HRD

* Challenges To Organizations and HRD professionals

* HRD as a unit has lost control and urgency on ethical behavior and decision.

* This is a global economy now, and we have to deal with different cultures ethics on a daily bases.

* Emerging Work place trends # 8 set a higher ethical bar

* ASTD created a code of ethics (that falls into forgetting ethics after orientation)

Personal Agreements and Disagreements

* (A)Business Schools are under preparing

* (A)Integration of ethics throughout the system & ongoing training

* (D)Business Ethic class in school is uncalled for and useless