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Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: The Legal Role in Keeping Your Workplace Safe
Workplace violence is an issue that no one can afford to ignore. An organization’s top priority is to ensure the safety of the workplace. But there are also some legal liability issues that you need to be aware of. This course provides an understanding of critical issues related to workplace violence including five of the toughest issues managers must deal with.
Protecting Intellectual Property
A great primer on IP protection! Intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not fully benefit from their inventions and would focus less on research and development.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) - An Overview
U.S. law strictly prohibits offering or receiving bribes and gifts when doing commerce with people in or from foreign countries. U.S. employees and the companies they represent who violate this law face prosecution when caught paying or accepting bribes from foreign officials. Violators pay heavy fines...and the people involved can spend years in prison. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the FCPA.
TrainingBriefs® Asking Someone to Lie
New Micro-Learning! In general, people lie so they can tip the balance toward things going their way. They rationalize the lie. This rationalization is like poison to work relationships and the ultimate success of a business. The antidote is to STOP. Search your motivations. Think about the implications. Open yourself up to other options and Preserve your integrity.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Bias in Hiring
New Micro-Learning! Making assumptions about others is a natural way of interacting with each other. But, assumptions can have a negative effect when it comes to hiring. In this course, we will explore how unconscious bias, or assumptions can prevent you from finding top talent for the roles you are trying to fill.
TrainingBriefs® Avoiding Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Although it can be uncomfortable or even unpleasant at times, you have a responsibility to take corrective or disciplinary action when the situation warrants it. In this course, we will examine the issue of avoiding discipline.
TrainingBriefs® Behind the Times
New Micro-Learning! Harassment and/or discrimination in the workplace is a very serious issue. This course takes a quick look at the potential consequences of making comments about an employee’s work habits that could possibly be construed as age bias or discrimination.
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® Conducting Legal Reference Checks
New Micro-Learning! Every day, organizations come under fire for hiring people with a past the company should, and could have, been aware of. Studies show that over 30 percent of all résumés contain fabrications. So checking out references and doing thorough background research on a candidate is becoming more and more important.
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® Handling Integrity Moments
New Micro-Learning! An integrity moment is any time an opportunity presents itself for you to make a choice that displays integrity or shows an example of integrity for others. This course outlines a process to guide your responses in order to build a culture of both honesty and trust in your organization.
TrainingBriefs® Holding Others Accountable for Retaliation
New MicroLearning! To demonstrate your commitment to the organization’s culture of integrity, you must consistently hold employees accountable for their actions. You should expect everyone in the workplace to have that same commitment to compliance. Finally, managers need to hold one another to the same standards as everyone else… with NO exceptions.
TrainingBriefs® Humor Gone Wrong
New Micro-Learning! We all like to have fun at work. But playing off stereotypes - even when it's intended as "just a joke" - isn't everybody's idea of fun. It could be seen as ridicule, which nobody likes. And if it happens a lot, it could create a hostile environment, which nobody wants.
TrainingBriefs® I Am Being Harassed!
New Micro-Learning! Sexual harassment is still a very real workplace issue. And... as you know by now, sexual harassment is illegal and is prohibited by law. Sexual harassment can be committed by a person of any gender, and it can occur between people of the same or different gender.
TrainingBriefs® Illegal Harassment
New Micro-Learning! Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. This module will take a look at what you can do as a manager and as an organization to prevent such behavior.
TrainingBriefs® Inconsistent Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Managers should always be professional, be even-handed, and above all, be consistent. Now obviously, employees aren't machines. And part of being a good manager is being able to tailor your management style to the unique needs of individuals. But when it comes to progressive discipline, making exceptions or applying different standards is a great way to end up telling your story to a judge.