Programme Objective

To explore ethical issues pertaining to Employees’ professional obligations at the workplace where the dynamics between both the “Employee-to-Employer” and “Employee-to-Employee” will be examined. The potential legal breaches as well as the potential commercial impact of unethical behaviours will also be discussed.

Programme Outline

• Workplace Ethics – An Overview
• Relationship with the law
• Non-legal breaches

Potential Ethical & Legal Breaches in Employee-to-Employer dynamics:

• Bad-mouthing the boss
• Doing your worst
• Pretending problem ignorance
• Training the next generation
• Handing over the mess
• Humility and ignorance
• The lunch (and coffee and smoke) break
• Unnecessary OT
• Sick to work or sick of work?
• Sick but work
• Gossiping

Potential Ethical & Legal Breaches in Employee-to-Employee dynamics:

• Stealing the thunder
• Pointing fingers
• Bad mouthing the colleague
• Use of office facilities
• Preferential treatment
• “Man shang bu man xia”
• (Chinese Idiom: Lying to one’s boss while being honest to one’s fellow colleagues)
• Supervisor-supervisee relations
• Office romance

Consequences

• Potential legal breaches
• Commercial impact
• On the office (Hardware)
• On the staff (Software)
• Inter-relationships
• Employer-employee
• Employee-employee
• Personal development

Training Methodology
Lecturestyle, with case studies 

Closing Date for Registration
1 week before programme or until full enrolment
 

Intended For

A Foundation to Intermediate level programme intended for both Practising and Non-Practising Accountants who would like understand more about the ethical and legal issues surrounding Employees’ professional obligations in the context of the workplace. Professionals who are involved in or interested to design policies surrounding HR, Employee Engagement, Employee Grievances, Organizational Development (OD), Change Management, etc are also welcome to attend.

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