Are the ethical expectations in the ethics training of my organization based in common sense and reality?
Expectations shouldn’t be burdensome, attainable only by saints. Having unattainable expectations with regard to ethics in the work of people makes criminals out of perfectly good people. It sets them up for failure. The key to this is to not be so locked into rules that you fail to see how they affect real people in the real world. There must be balance in ethics training. The irony is that oftentimes the fewer rules the better. People will be more compliant in a work place ethics atmosphere of freedom governed by principle rather than oppressive restrictions. In other words, it’s not the number of rules in the employee manual but what those rules mean and how relevant they are to real people. For example, rather than having numerous rules on caring for company property, a statement on “respect” written with clarity, conviction, and principle may cover it all.
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