Managing Ethics in Organisations workshop.

Course background

The Managing Ethics in Organisations workshop is aimed at orientating those that either (a) oversee the management of ethics or (b) have been tasked to manage ethics at an operational level. The latter could include

• Ethics managers
• Ethics officers/practitioners
• Functionaries of the governance cluster that also have a mandate to manage or to act as enabling partners of the ethics office (for example internal audit, risk, legal, compliance, forensics, HR and the company secretariat)
• Ethics ambassadors

What content is covered?

The following themes are introduced and discussed in the workshop:

1. Ethics in organisations: a shared meaning
2. The governance of ethics
3. Organisational ethics management (utilising TEI’s Organisational Ethics Management Framework^TM)
4. The ethics management process
   • Ethics risk assessment
   • An ethics management strategy and plan
   • Codes of ethics and policies
   • Institutionalising ethics
   • Monitoring and reporting on the organisation’s ethics performance
   • Independent assessment and the external reporting of ethics performance
5. Ethics management role players
6. Towards building ethics organisational cultures

Course duration

The duration of the workshop is one full day or two days (contact sessions). Virtual training: 1 x half-day (virtual) or 2 x ½ day (virtual).