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ECOA ETHICS SCHOOL

A first-of-its-kind program serving the E&C field!

A seven-week webcast course

June 27 - August 15, 2012
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

ECOA Ethics School focuses on the principal underpinnings of organizational ethics, as well as research from the behavioral sciences that informs the field. The course topics include ethical reasoning, decision-making, and culture-building—all set in a highly practical context relevant to any E&C practitioner. 

 

It is designed for ethics and compliance practitioners who want a thorough grounding in organizational ethics, an understanding of how ethics can enhance and deepen compliance endeavors, and an opportunity to try strategies for integrating and embedding ethics and compliance in their organization. 

 

The program director is Thomas I. White, PhD, the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics and director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of five books, including Right and Wrong, Discovering Philosophy, and Business Ethics, as well as numerous articles on topics ranging from sixteenth-century Renaissance humanism to business ethics. 

COURSE AGENDA

 

ECOA Ethics School features seven webcast sessions, running 90 minutes each, from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesdays. The faculty for the sessions consists of prominent ethicists in the field as well as experienced ethics and compliance officers.

Session 1: Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Overview 

  • Course outline and expectations
  • Definition of workplace ethics
  • Relationship of ethics to compliance
  • Q&A 

Session 2: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Ethics Standards and Principles

  • Relationship between values and principles
  • Interrelationship of legal, regulatory, and ethical domains
  • Examples of ethical standards/principles in use in ethics and compliance programs
  • Q&A

Session 3: Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Ethical Decision-Making

  • Models of ethical decision-making
  • Identification of ethical issues
  • Ethical reasoning, analysis, and evaluation
  • Q&A

Session 4: Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Ethical Culture-Building

  • How to measure an organization’s culture
  • Ethical culture-building strategies
  • Working with other functions (e.g., HR) regarding ethical culture-building
  • Q&A

Session 5: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Ethics Programming

  • Ethics-based facets of program delivery: Training, communication, codes, policies & procedures, monitoring, auditing, evaluation, and reporting mechanisms
  • Examples of innovations in program delivery (e.g. Ethical Impact Reports or EIRs)

Session 6: Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Ethics Metrics

  • Establishing ethics-based program objectives
  • Strategies for assessing compliance risk and ethical vulnerabilities
  • Techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of methods used to achieve program objectives
  • Q&A

Session 7: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 

Capstone: The Role of Ethics in an E&C Program

  • Integrating ethics and compliance in an organization’s program
  • Earning support for focusing on ethics in an ethics and compliance program
  • Q&A

 

 

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A certificate of completion is awarded to those who participate in the sessions and successfully complete a course project. To receive the certificate, a participant must attend no fewer than five sessions and “make up” any missed session(s) in the next cycle.

REGISTRATION FEES

 

Register for ECOA Business School, Ethics School, & ECOA Law School and save!*


Ethics School
Any two schools

All three schools
ECOA Sponsoring Partner members
$750
$1,350
$1,950
ECOA Basic / Govt. Basic members
$900
$1,600
$2,300
ECOA Full Government members
$650
$1,175
$1,700
Non-members
$1,050
$1,850
$2,650

 

 

 

Please contact Janel Heilbrunn (jheilbrunn@theecoa.org or (781) 647-9333) if you:

  • Need to be invoiced
  • Have already attended Business and / or Law School
  • Would like to register for multiple schools at once
  • Are interested in registering 5 or more individuals from your company

* Courses must be completed within three years from date of first course. Payments may be received per course. 

 

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CANCELLATION POLICY

 

  • No refunds will be given for January session registrations cancelled after June 20, at which time the pre-reading materials will be made available to all paid registrants.

 

For cancellations, please call Mary Johansson at (781) 647-9333, or e-mail Mary at mjohansson@theecoa.org.