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Description
- An interactive, case-study based workshop about professional ethics
- Participants are exposed to a blend of traditional foundational ethics and modern tools
- One of the goals of the workshop is to raise the attendant's awareness of ethical issues
- We expect the professionals in the workshop to actively participate in discussions and case studies
- The case studies include historical and hypothetical scenarios that nicely complement the concepts developed at the workshop.
- Attendants are asked to
- use the concepts and techniques developed in the workshop to construct, evaluate or modify the mission of their organization from an ethical perspective
- proposed an improvement to one of the processes in their organization that would result in improvements of the ethical environment
Workshop duration
Eight hours
Topics
- Traditional principles of ethics
- Kantian principles
- The Golden Rule
- Utilitarianism
- The method of drawing ethical lines
- Professional codes of ethics
- Conflicts within the code
- Difficulties in their interpretation
- Process improvement from an ethical perspective
- Restructuring the mission of an organization from an ethical perspective
Deliverables
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will - Be able to articulate classical principles of ethics
- Understand the relationship between classical principles and professional codes of ethics
- Develop an awareness of professional ethics
- Apply the concepts and techniques developed in the workshop to solve case studies
- Construct, evaluate or modify the mission of their organization from an ethical perspective
- Propose an improvement to a given process or method from an ethical perspective
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