Business Ethics | Strengthen Workplace Culture with Ethical Business Practices
Learn to apply ethical principles in business environments. This course is designed for young professionals and students looking to develop integrity and accountability in the workplace. This course helps you understand why ethics matter, how they affect your daily decisions, and how they help build long-term trust and credibility in your career.
What is the Course About
This course explores the fundamental principles and practical application of business ethics in today’s corporate world. With a focus on real-world scenarios, it equips learners with the skills to make ethical decisions in diverse professional settings. From managing conflicts of interest to promoting transparency, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of ethical behaviour and how it strengthens workplace culture. The course also highlights the importance of personal responsibility and professional conduct as core components of long-term success in any career path.
Skills You Will Gain from this Course
- Apply ethical principles in professional decision-making
- Identify and manage ethical dilemmas in the workplace
- Promote fairness, honesty, and accountability within teams
- Understand corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership
- Strengthen workplace culture through consistent ethical practices
Who Should Enrol
- Young professionals starting out in corporate or business environments
- Students preparing for careers in business or office administration
- Team leaders, supervisors, and support staff responsible for upholding ethical standards
- Individuals looking to build a foundation in ethical business conduct
Overview
Comprehending the interconnection among values, ethics, and organisational culture, recognising their influence on goal achievement.
Description
Comprehending the interconnection among values, ethics, and organisational culture, recognising their influence on goal achievement. They can apply corporate ethics concepts to a unit, analysing it against ethical principles and suggesting strategies to enhance organisational values, codes of conduct, and ethical practices within both the unit and the broader entity.
- How to apply the principles of ethics to improve organisational culture
- (incl 1.1.1) Relationship between personal values, ethics and organisational culture
- Relationship between ethics and organisational culture
- Types of cultures and how they influence ethics and values
- Conflicts between personal values and organisational values and ethics
- Illustrations of conflicts
- Impact of organisational values and culture on organisations
- Role of organisational values and culture in triple-bottom-line
- Understanding ethics, values and culture
- Imperatives of ethics in South Africa
- Batho-Pele principles
- The KING report
- Corporate governance and ethics
- Role of corporate governance
- Benefits of corporate governance
- Ethics of corporate governance
- Ethical practices in a unit
- Principles of corporate ethics Assessing individual and organisational conduct, values, and ethics
- Principles of corporate ethics Assessing individual and organisational conduct, values, and ethics
- How do you prepare a survey?
- Sampling
- Interviews and phone surveys
- Evaluating the current state against the desired state concerning values, ethics, and the code of conduct
- What are the elements of a SWOT analysis?
- Setting Goals and Objectives
- Recommendations for strengthening organisational values, code of conduct, and ethics
- Developing an implementation plan to strengthen organisational values, ethics, and code of conduct
- Roles and responsibilities of a manager in strengthening ethics, codes and values
- Promoting the values, code and ethics
- Monitoring and evaluating improvements in values, code and ethics
- Non-accredited: Short course only
- Duration: 1h 30m
- Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
- Access Period: 12 Months
