Cultivating an Ethical Work Environment as an HR Manager
Virtual Meeting
Presented by Dawn Tedesco, Career Compliance Solutions
Organizations have a growing need for its employees to question whether specific business practices are acceptable, to use values, knowledge, and experience to recognize issues, and to resolve those issues by making good ethical decisions reflecting business and society. As an HR Professional, it’s imperative for you to continually foster a work environment grounded in such principles.
Dawn will discuss factors of an effective ethics program and how HR professionals can impact individual factors affecting ethical awareness, judgement, and decision making in the organization on topics such as protected characteristics including age, and gender including gender transition. She will review modern day examples from companies such as Microsoft, Verizon, and Fidelity.
How can Human Resources align the cultivated character traits of employees with those of the organization? Dawn will discuss strategies for HR to encourage individual virtue and integrity among organization members including the use of their knowledge, skills, and experience. She will also discuss how Human Resources can help organization members align their goals with that of the organization using the values of trust, empathy, fairness, truthfulness, responsibility, and organizational citizenship.
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify the values for culture establishing conduct in the workplace such as trust, empathy, fairness, truthfulness, responsibility, and organizational citizenship.
Identify factors for an effective ethics program.
Advocate culture in a way that affects how individuals act with each other inside and outside the organization.
Direct the way in which culture is expressed both formally and informally using direct and indirect communication throughout the organization.
Impact individuals’ judgement and decision making on sensitive work topics such as age, and gender transition.
This program is pending for PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® and ETHICS recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
Our Presenter:
Dawn Tedesco, owner of Career Compliance Solutions, has extensive experience in employee and management skills development and over 20 years' hospitality operations and HR management and training experience with organizations such as Sodexo and Aramark. She has designed and developed training programs for several large organizations and now specializes in instructional design, eLearning development, and helping businesses with management skills and compliance training.
Dawn is an experienced diversity and ethics trainer and frequently presents her SHRM certified course, Organizational Ethics for HR Managers. She works with organizations to advocate culture by providing inclusive onboarding, hiring, and lifecycle processes. Dawn is a volunteer for the New England Society of Association Executives, the American Society of Association Executives, and the Human Resources Association of Central Connecticut. She has been an Adjunct Faculty member for four Connecticut colleges and universities.
This event is organized by the HRMA of Central MA. For more information or to register, please visit their website.
