A Look at
Workplace Ethics
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What are Work Ethics?
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Work Ethics
> Work Ethics for an Employer > Work Ethics for an Employee
• To provide a safe work • To show up on time
environment for staff and • To tend to company business the
employees whole time while at work
• To treat employees with dignity • To treat the company’s resources,
and respect equipment and products with care
• To provide a fair wage for the • To give respect to the company by
services rendered working with honesty and integrity
• To handle all business
transactions with integrity and
honesty
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What Do Professional Ethics Include?
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Professional Ethics
> Professional manner
> Personal life
> Respect for resources
> Guidelines for professional ethics
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Professional Manner
> Professional manner includes being:
• on time
• polite
• respectful
• dependable
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Professionalism
> Soft Skills – Professionalism
(click on link)
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Personal Life
> Separate work life from private life
> Avoid discussing personal problems
> Keep personal telephone calls to a minimum
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Do Not Steal or Waste Resources
> Stealing is > Wasting resources costs the
• illegal company money
• unethical > Recycle items such as:
> Do not take items such as: • paper products
• cash • grease
• property • oil
• office supplies
• food
• toiletries
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Guidelines for Professional Ethics
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Work Ethics
> Ethics in the Workplace!
(click on link)
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Human Relations Soft Skills/Transferable Skills
Dealing effectively with
conflict
Establishing
rapport Helping clarify
misunderstandings
Creating an environment of
Being a social interaction
Treating people cooperative team
fairly member
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Work Ethic Qualities
Responsibility Commitment and
Excellence
Flexibility Teamwork
Honestly Reliability
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Code of Ethics
Code of Ethics
Employee
treatment
Wages, benefits
and working
conditions
Workplace ethics serve as guiding
Behavior of principles that effective leaders use
employees to set the professional tone and
behavior.
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Questions to Keep in Mind
> Is it fair? > Am I confident in > Does it make
> Does it uphold the my decision? anyone
values of the > Will it be valid for uncomfortable?
organization? years? > Does it convey
> Can I tell my > Is it legal? respect for
decisions to my others?
> Will it hurt
employer, my anyone? > Have I involved
family and others? others by asking
> Does it positively their viewpoint?
> How would others represent the
regard the details company?
if public?
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Questions?
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References and Resources
> Images:
• Microsoft Clip Art: Used with permission from Microsoft.
> Textbooks:
• Parnell Frances Baynor. (2001). Skills for personal and family living. (pp. 195-206). Tinley
Park: The Goodheart-Willcox Publishing Company.
• Sasse Connie. (2004). Families today. (4th ed., pp. 285-304). New York: McGraw Hill
Glencoe.
> Websites:
• Department of Labor
Essentials Skills to Getting a Job.
[Link]
• Ethics Resource Center (ERC)
ERC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, dedicated to independent
research that advances high ethical standards and practices in public and private
institutions.
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[Link]
References and Resources
> YouTube™:
• Ethics in the Workplace!
A presentation on how companies can easily implement business ethics in workplace and
still achieve their goals.
[Link]
• United States Department of Labor
Soft Skills – Professionalism information.
[Link]
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