Ethics at Work: Insights for Engineering Professionals
This online course explores personal, professional and business ethics. It examines the difference between ethics and compliance and how ethical values can enhance business performance and overcome both conduct risk and ethical lapses.
Description
Using case studies, scenarios, and discussion, this online course examines how ethics can underpin and benefit business culture. It invites attendees to reflect on their ethical best self, ethical lapses and their personal vs professional thresholds. By understanding some of the criteria by which an ethical along with a compliance mindset can be applied, assessed and measured participants will bring fresh confidence into discussions around aligning ethics with business considerations.
Learning outcomes
Participants will gain fresh insight into:
- The foundations and role of ethics in a business setting
- Trust as a performance enhancer and economic driver
- Conflicts of interest
- How to apply and interpret the Code of Ethical Conduct
You will learn:
- How to confidently identify where an ethical breach has occurred and needs to be addressed or reported
- How to spot when judgement is clouded
- Identify issues that may amount to conduct risk or may have the potential for reputational damage
Intended audience
This online course is mainly designed for engineers with up to five years of experience or those who have not previously experienced an ethics workshop.
It enables confidence rather than assumption around what comprises ethical behaviour given the considerations and challenges faced in todays complex marketplace. It will draw on the Code of Ethical Conduct and the requirement for an Annual Commitment to Ethics. It is relevant for all engineers, surveyors, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, contractors and project managers, in private or public practice.
Format
This online course is highly interactive and participants are encouraged to speak up and engage fully.
Using case studies, principles and ethical concepts it will highlight the vulnerability to ethical lapses that challenge all professionals as everyday business pressures arise. Being interactive the online course also enables participants to become equipped through challenge and discussion on how best to navigate uncertainty with an ethical mindset.
Presenter information
Jane Arnott is the director of the Ethics Conversation. Prior to this she was the first offshore Associate and Country Representative for the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), UK, a position she held for over ten years. During Jane’s early career she was Chief Executive reporting to the Wood Council of New Zealand tasked with the commercial uptake of engineered timber. She was marketing principal for a nationwide engineering firm and consulted to a number of engineering companies across both ethics, marketing and communications. Jane became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2021 and in December 2021 she was appointed Adjunct Research fellow for the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership, School of Management, Victoria University of Wellington. Jane gained her post graduate Professional Ethics in 2007.