This session is delivered via live webinar (zoom platform).

 A detailed set of instructions on the Live Webinar will be sent to you closer to date.

Programme Overview

This seminar is designed to provide an analysis and examination of significant business ethical issues and challenges existing throughout the professional business arena. Emphasis will be placed upon the manager’s social and environmental responsibilities to a wide variety of stakeholders, including employees, customers and the public. Ethical dilemmas and decision-making frameworks and approaches at the personal, organizational and societal levels will be explored. Participant’s engagement in real-world applications and issues are a critical portion of the seminar.


Programme Objective

To ensure that participants are aware of the relationship between ethical conduct and business practice and that they understand the ethical, theories, standards and practices as it relates to the general conduct of business and their interaction with employees, customers and the public at large.
Specifically the seminar aims to:

• Establish a clear understanding of what ethics is.
• Improve or establish individual and group skills in identifying and analyzing ethical issues in business and formulating recommended solutions that may resolve ethical conflicts and dilemmas.
• Critically examine the assumptions and values that people of diverse backgrounds bring to the complex world of business

Programme Outline

Upon successful completion of this Business Ethics seminar, the participant will be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of the definition of ethics and the importance and role ethical behavior serves in the business world today.
• Demonstrate understanding of how business ethics relates to larger moral frameworks.
• Identify various ethical issues that occur in the business environment, the major financial scandals due to unethical behavior. The role of ethics in business.
• Unethical and/or Illegal: Accounting fraud - Deceptive advertising - Unfair competitive practices
• Internet theft
• Identifying the Sources of Unethical Behavior in Organizations
• Overly aggressive financial or business objectives
• Abusive & intimidating behavior
• Conflict of interest
• Fairness & honesty
• Communications
• Business relationships
• Evaluate an ethical situation by applying the steps involved in ethical decision making.
• Ethical Conduct - Building trust - Promoting confidence - Validating relationships
• Learn how to recognize and resolve ethical issues
• Identify the rights of workers in a merger and acquisition
• Outline the responsibilities of shareholders in a merger and acquisition
• Ethical Concerns and Solutions
• Business Relationships
• Relationships with customers
• Relationships with suppliers
• Relationships with co-workers
• Plagiarism
• Improving Ethical Behavior in Business
• Discuss the role of ethics in international business
• Identify the criticisms of marketing’s impact on society as a whole
• Evaluate the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, and explore its relevance to ethical business activity.
• Identify the moral obligations of businesses to the environment and specifically global competitors and global stakeholders.
• Comprehensively analyze in professional business caliber writing real-world business firm’s activities regarding ethical and social responsibility via written case study analyses.
• Formulate a particular stance on a business ethics issues 

 

Pre-requisites

Please take note of the following admission requirements:

• Trainings will be conducted on Zoom platform, thus video camera and microphone are compulsory
• Mandatory for video camera to be turned on throughout the course
• Display your official name (as per NRIC) in Zoom, to facilitate attendance taking

 

Training Methodology
Lecture style, with Exercises/Case Studies

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

Intended For

Business Leaders - Financial Managers – Financial controllers – Auditors and Accountants

Competency Mapping

Category 2 = 7.00 Hours

Programme Facilitator(s)