Ethics For Business
You cannot talk about work all day, and you shouldn't. Any group of people needs to share thoughts, feelings, ideas and jokes. It helps us bond, and we work better together as a result. The trouble is, you can take it too far without thinking.
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Comments & Jokes
You can't talk about work all day. And you shouldn't. Any group of people needs to share thoughts, feelings, ideas and jokes. It helps us bond, and we work better together a result. The trouble is, you can take it too far without thinking.
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Conflicts Of Interest
When you're at work, you're being paid to act in the interests of your client, or your employer, and your decisions should represent what's best for them. A conflict of interest occurs when you have two different interests to serve.
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Digital Communication
Everything you post is permanent. Every word, every picture, every exclamation mark and emoji. Even when you have the option to delete something you've written, the chances are that it's still sitting on a server somewhere. And it may have been shared a million times already.
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Enemies Of Ethical Behaviour - Financial Gain
People know the difference between right and wrong. We all agree that lying, cheating, stealing or harming other people is bad. So why do people end up behaving badly? And what can happen when money enters the equation?
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Enemies Of Ethical Behaviour - Self Image
Self-image is a big factor in our decision-making and the desire to be seen in a certain way can be the seed of ethical failure.
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Intimidation
Tempers sometimes flare, patience can wear thin because people can be infuriating. And when we're working under pressure, we may be guilty of the occasional angry outburst. But these outbursts need to be the exception. Aggression should never be a used as a tactic to get a result.
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Introduction To Common Individual Mistakes
Here we're going to look at common individual mistakes. We'll focus on areas of Personal conduct and Decision-making. This video takes a real, practical example from sport and then relates it to business.
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Social Proof - Ethics for Business
Social Proof is one of our habits of thinking. It's a cognitive bias that we talk about in our critical thinking course. We also saw it in the introduction to this section, where Lance Armstrong persuaded his team that doping is acceptable because everyone else is doing it.
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Accountability - Ethics For Business
This video provides a case study in accountability to illustrate that it's about thinking outside the cycle of blame and self-defence.
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Broadcasting Your Values
Your values are what you do, not what you say. People perceive your values in your day-to-day interactions, and even more at the important moments, where there's lot at stake.
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Competition
Competition is the cornerstone of the market. Every player in the market will compete with every other. So how do we make healthy competition more likely?
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Diversity & Inclusion - How To Do It
In the last video we defined diversity and said why it was important to have a diverse workforce. In this video we talk more about, how?
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Diversity & Inclusion - What It Is
A diverse workforce contains different kinds of people. It should reflect the society from which it's drawn. Why should we have this as a goal?
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Economics vs. Ethics
Here's a strange thing. In business, we can be as selfish as we like. Or at least according to Adam Smith, the founder of economic theory...
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Introduction To Best Practice
You don't need to make every decision yourself, starting from scratch. You need some generally agreed upon rules, guidelines and goals to refer to. That's why in every profession there are standards of best practice. Best practice means doing more than the minimum.
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Transparency & Openness
Now, let's look at how, in good times and bad, Open communication is essential to your ability to do business.
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Conclusion - Ethics For Business
In this section we've tried to show how business ethics, like any ethics, are complicated, especially once you're out there in the real world, being pulled ten ways at once.
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Consequences
First we'll try to make our decision based on the consequences, which probably sounds like an obvious basis for making a decision, but we'll soon see that it's not always so simple.
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Introduction To Making Decisions
In this section, we're going to describe a scenario and examine it from 4 different perspectives.
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Actions - Ethics For Business
This final video looks back over what we've done and summarises the main advice.