HR Thursday ~ Cultivating an Ethical Work Environment as a Manager hosted by the LA Metro Chamber

Human Resources professionals are in a perfect position to take the lead in establishing a fair, morally principled workplace and to increase awareness of organizational ethics and decrease the level of ambiguity among employees regarding good ethical decisions.

We’ll discuss factors of an effective ethics program and how HR professionals can impact individual factors affecting ethical awareness, judgement, and decision making in the organization on topics such as protected characteristics including age, and gender including gender transition. How can Human Resources align the cultivated character traits of employees with those of the organization?

We’ll discuss strategies for HR to encourage individual virtue and integrity among organization members including the use of their knowledge, skills, and experience. We’ll also discuss how Human Resources can help organization members align their goals with that of the organization using the values of trust, empathy, fairness, truthfulness, responsibility, and organizational citizenship.

At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

• Define their role as HR in setting the culture currently and initiate actions to become a stakeholder in guiding and changing culture in their organization.
• Use the Managers Guide to Influencing Culture resource (provided) and its guiding principles for creating a more productive and engaging workplace.
• Identify and incorporate strategies for five organizational values including trust, empathy, fairness, truthfulness, and responsibility, for establishing conduct and behavior in the workplace.
• Recognize activities of popular companies and incorporate similar best practices and policies in their organizations supporting retention over time.
• Impact individuals’ judgement and decision making on sensitive work topics such as age, and gender transition.