Workplace Ethics Made Simple

A Workplace Ethics Video Course That's Simple

The decisions that your employees make will literally define your organization.  Make sure that when your employees are confronted with difficult legal and ethical challenges that they have the training to make the right decision every time.  Ethics Made Simple is a short but comprehensive workplace ethics training program that covers virtually every major workplace ethics topic in 8 and a half minutes.  When combined with the employee quiz, this ethics training course takes less than 15 minutes to complete.  The program also comes with a leader's guide that can be used to expand the training.

This business ethics training course covers:

• Stealing workplace resources such as office supplies, unauthorized photocopies, and computer printouts.
• The theft of merchandise from retail locations or manufacturing facilities.
• Illegally copying or downloading patented or copyrighted materials 
• Taking credit for or stealing the work of co-workers and passing it off as your own or taking full credit for a project you were given assistance on.
• Reporting more hours than you actually worked, falsifying pay records or reporting inflated business expenses for reimbursement.
• Deliberately doing less work than you are capable of out of laziness or to lower future expectations.
• Socializing with friends or family during work hours via the telephone, social networking sites, instant messaging or any other means of communication.
• Falsifying company documents to pass inspections by your organization or by local, state or federal government officials.
• Lying to or misleading customers about the attributes of your organization’s products or services or the ability to deliver those products and services.
• Falsifying the results of research and development to benefit your organization or to further your own personal career.
• Over-promising results in order to gain support for a project or for personal advancement within an organization.
• Destroying sensitive company documents and emails that could be harmful in the case of audits, reviews, and litigation.
• Violating anti-trust laws by colluding with competitors.
• Manipulating financial information to achieve organizational or personal goals 
• Failing to follow your organization’s safety procedures or failing to follow federal, state or local government safety rules.
• Viewing or sharing confidential customer, patient or employee information without authorization or approval.
• Insider trading 
• Gossiping or spreading rumors about your co-workers.
• Verbally intimidating a co-worker through the use of taunting, teasing, yelling and sarcasm
• Menacing a co-worker with threatening looks, gestures and body language.
• Sexual Harassment
• Giving bribes to or accepting bribes from a business competitor for confidential information.
• Giving bribes or gifts to public officials for favorable rulings on inspections, licenses, permits or other government controlled decisions.
• Bribing public officials from foreign countries.
• Basing an employment decision such as hiring, promotion or compensation on a person’s race, color, national origin, age, gender, marital or family status, religion or genetics rather than on his or her ability or experience. 
• Treating a co-worker poorly or unfairly because of a bias, stereotype or prejudice stemming from a perceived difference. 
• The consequences of violating ethical standards

This unique course breaks workplace ethics down into digestible bites by covering all the issues that you want your employees to recognize as unethical and possibly illegal.  Once your staff has seen this video and passed the quiz, you will have confidence that they will recognize unethical conduct when they see it...and avoid it!