Workplace Ethics: Mastering Ethical Leadership and Sustaining a Moral Workplace

by Paul Falcone

Overview

LEARN TO NAVIGATE COMPLEX EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees, teaches you the leadership principles that cultivate an ethical workplace and legally protect your company.

Ethical challenges ranging from designing a diversity and inclusion strategy to creating a process for handling harassment allegations or establishing an employee discipline or termination process can overwhelm even senior leaders. This quick-guide walks you through these and many more critical ethical challenges you’ll face when managing a team and workplace.

Workplace Ethics provides solutions for:

• Facing common ethical challenges in the workplace and offers quick pointers to help you navigate those situations.
• Understanding The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 affects your team and meeting SOX obligations.
• Educating employees how they can foster an ethical work environment at any level.
• Identifying failing diversity and inclusion initiatives and how to fix them.
• Mastering the tools needed to ethically manage your team and legally protect the company.

This quick-guide will help you cement your reputation as a selfless and emotionally intelligent leader who sets high expectations and achieves exceptional results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400229970
Publisher:	HarperCollins Leadership
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	590,053
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Paul Falcone is principal of the Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC, specializing in management and leadership training, executive coaching, international keynote speaking, and facilitating corporate offsite retreats. He is the former CHRO of Nickelodeon and has held senior-level HR positions with Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, and City of Hope. He has extensive experience in entertainment, healthcare/biotech, and financial services, including in international, nonprofit, and union environments.

Paul is the author of a number of books, many of which have been ranked as #1 Amazon bestsellers in the categories of human resources management, business and organizational learning, labor and employment law, business mentoring and coaching, business conflict resolution and mediation, communication in management, and business decision-making and problem-solving. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Turkish.

Paul is a certified executive coach through the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching program, a long-term columnist for SHRM.org and HR Magazine, and an adjunct faculty member in UCLA Extension’s School of Business and Management. He is an accomplished keynote presenter, in-house trainer, and webinar facilitator in the areas of talent and performance management, leadership development, and effective leadership communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1 Our History, Our Laws, and Our Evolving Workplace 1

1 What Is Workplace Ethics All About and Why This Book? 3

2 The Foundation: Legal Versus Ethical Standards 6

3 Gaining an Understanding of the Ethical Challenges You May Face on a Practical Basis as a Business Professional 9

4 A Brief Overview of the Study of Ethics: A Starting Place 14

5 Ethics Programs Available in Today's Workplace: Not Nearly Enough to Solve All Your Problems-Unless You Make It Personal 18

6 Ethics and Culture: The Core Component of Your Human Capital Strategy 24

Part 2 Sox Compliance, Antiharassment, and Effective Internal Investigations 29

7 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Where the Rubber Meets the Road 31

8 Your Key Sox Obligation: Disclose Potential Conflicts of Interest 36

9 Sox Obligations and Protections: Antidiscrimination and Disclosures of Personal Relationships 39

10 Sox Obligations and Protections: Company Property, Whistleblower Protection, Safety, Privacy, and Intellectual Property 42

11 Whistleblowers Versus Character Assassins: Dealing with Anonymous and Mean-Spirited Complaints 47

12 Internal Workplace Investigations: Your First Line of Defense 53

13 Policies (the Letter of the Law), Codes of Conduct (the Spirit of the Law), and Past Practices 59

Part 3 Avoiding Litigation Land Mines 65

14 He's Employed at Will: Can't We Just Fire Him? 67

15 The Absolute Rule of "Document, Document, Document" and Its Significant Limitations 71

16 Properly Invoking the Attorney-Client Privilege in Your Email and Written Correspondence 76

17 Not All Harassment Is Sexual 81

18 Performance Versus Conduct: A Critical Employment Law Distinction 87

19 Sameness Versus Consistency: A Potential Ethical Quagmire 91

20 Acting Outside the Course and Scope of Your Employment: Derailing an Otherwise Brilliant Career Trajectory 94

Part 4 Ethical Leadership and Sustaining a Moral Workplace: A New Way Forward 103

21 Lessons from the HR Trenches and Wisdom for the Ages 105

22 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Mission-Critical Business Imperative 111

23 Educating Entry-Level and Nonexempt Workers on Ethical Issues They May Otherwise Miss 116

24 Ethics Is Personal: A Sample Hollywood Script to Live By 123

25 There's So Much More to Ethics: You Won't Want to Miss This! 128

26 The Future of Workplace Ethics 134

Acknowledgments 140

Index 141

About the Author 147