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Good People, Bad Choices (eLearning Signature)
The eLearning course is a guide to ethical decision-making and provides an excellent vehicle for discussion based training that includes such topics as confidential information, gift giving, financial accountability, copyright infringement and more.
TrainingBriefs® Maintaining Confidentiality
Maintaining confidentiality at the workplace is of utmost importance in today’s competitive world to ensure that information about customers, clients, and employees is safe. But… there might be times that we may find ourselves in an awkward situation that could lead to the compromise of such information.
TrainingBriefs® Being Transparent
The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Unfortunately, there are times when individuals are asked to be less than totally honest in order to paint a brighter financial picture. In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers discussing an upcoming presentation to the board of directors. The boss is pressuring his subordinate to paint a picture that is brighter than it actually is.
TrainingBriefs® Cheating the System
New Micro-Learning! Most of the ethical misconduct in an organization is the small bad choices that employees make day to day. Breaking simple policies or taking advantage of privileges and benefits (like PTO) may not seem like serious ethical misconduct – but these infractions are a reflection of what kind of employee you are or could become. Small bad choices may lead to bigger bad choices.
TrainingBriefs® Compromising Your Standards
New Micro-Learning! When it comes to using inaccurate information to meet a deadline - even if it doesn't seem to impact or affect the outcome of a situation - it is a very slippery slope. Sometimes there is information that should not be kept confidential.
TrainingBriefs® Ethical Choices – Violating Procedures
New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have SOX or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to consider when it comes to policy. All publicly traded companies are now required by law to set in place accounting internal controls – ones that measure the organization’s effectiveness. Policies, like getting three bids, is an example of the many kinds of internal controls that must be followed – noncompliance is against the law.
TrainingBriefs® Ethics & Budgets
New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?
TrainingBriefs® Everyone Does It
New Micro-Learning! In this course, we'll look at software theft. By the time we're finished, you'll be in a better position to not only recognize the kinds of ethical situations that can lead to problems; but you'll also be better prepared to really think through the issues and figure out what's the best choice of action for you and your organization.
TrainingBriefs® Using Inside Information
New Micro-Learning! Everyone needs to remember that it is a federal crime to trade securities, including the distribution of 401k’s, based on "inside information" - information you learn about your company or a closely allied company which is not generally available to the public, and which could cause the security's price to change if it became known.
Got Ethics?® Accepting Gifts - Outside the Office
A newly approved vendor sends an expensive gift to an employee through the mail. Accepting gifts from vendors or partners could cloud objectivity.
Got Ethics?® Better Use It Now
We all have personal responsibility for understanding our corporate financial standards and conduct. This eLearning module focuses on a problem many individuals within an organization struggle with. Namely, understanding financial responsibility.
Got Ethics?® Faking It (for More Vacation Time)
An organization’s success depends on the integrity of its employees. In this eLearning course, we'll take a look at an example of an ethical situation (taking more PTO than requested) and spend some time reviewing what we can do if such a situation arises.
Got Ethics?® I Didn’t Really Say Anything
This eLearning module focuses on a problem many individuals within an organization struggle with. Namely, ensuring that confidential or, need to know only, information does not become compromised when they find themselves in an awkward situation.
Got Ethics?® Is It a Done Deal?
This eLearning course focuses on the problem of maintaining inside information confidential regarding the ventures of an organization.
Got Ethics?® No Harm, No Foul
A key component to workplace ethics and behavior is integrity, or being honest and doing the right thing at all times. This module focuses on fraud and deception.
Got Ethics?® Only The Best Case Scenario
This eLearning module focuses on truthful communication. Whether your role is to communicate reports, data or information - internally or externally - you have an ethical responsibility to report the facts.
Got Ethics?® Providing Accurate Information
This eLearning module focuses on why honesty and accurate information is important in business. The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Asking who benefits from business honesty can explain why virtue is also important.
Got Ethics?® We Don't Need Another Quote
In this eLearning module we meet an employee who received bad advice from her manager to violate policy because of a personal relationship within the organization. The question is how will she react?
Got Ethics?® We've Got Extra Copies
Copyright infringement is common. It’s easy to do. But it’s illegal. This eLearning module focuses on ethical side of copyright infringement within an organization.