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Office Ethics and You:
Making Good Decisions
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Agenda: Day One
8:30-8:45
Session One: Introduction and Course Overview
8:45-9:00
Icebreaker: Hello!
9:00-9:45
Session Two: What is Ethics?
9:45-10:00
Session Three: Taking Your Moral Temperature, Part One
10:00-10:15 Session Four: Why Bother with Ethics?
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Session Five: Kohlberg’s Six Stages
11:00-11:30 Session Six: Some Objective Ways of Looking at the World
11:45-12:00 Morning Wrap-Up
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-1:15
Energizer: Warning Signs
1:15-2:00
Session Seven: What Does Ethical Mean?
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-3:00
Session Eight: Avoiding Ethical Dilemmas
3:00-3:15
Session Nine: Pitfalls and Excuses
3:15-4:15
Session Ten: Developing an Office Code of Ethics
4:15-4:30
Day One Wrap-Up
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Session One: Course Overview
• Understand the difference between ethics and
morals
• Understand the value of ethics
• Identify some of your values and moral principles
• Be familiar with some philosophical approaches to
ethical decisions
• Identify some ways to improve ethics in your office
• Know what is required to start developing an office
code of ethics
• Know some ways to avoid ethical dilemmas
• Have some tools to help you make better decisions
• Be familiar with some common ethical dilemmas
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Session Two: What is Ethics?
• What is ethics?
• What are morals?
• What is an ethical decision?
• Have you ever encountered an ethical
conflict where values differ?
• How did you solve it?
• How can we identify these ethical
conflicts?
• What are some solutions?
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Session Three: Taking Your Moral
Temperature, Part One
Scenario One
Your supervisor is home sick. He called you to ask
you to tell anyone that asks that he is on a business
day trip.
Scenario Two
You have found out that a particular team in your
company will be laid off in six months. This is
completely confidential and you’re not supposed to
know. However, your best friend is on that team. S