Intensive Session: Ethics in the Workplace

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8:00am - 12:00pm

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In this time of growing risks, criminal and juvenile justice professionals need clear and comprehensive guidelines to provide the highest level of service while simultaneously protecting their clients and themselves. Staff are overwhelmed daily not only by ethical dilemmas with clients and with internal and external stakeholders, but also by multiple code of ethics requirements, i.e., agency, licenses, certifications, professions, grants, and secondary employment. This translates to attempts to satisfy behavioral guidelines for ethical conduct on a number of fronts. It is important for community corrections professionals to have a systematic tool to approach the topic as well as a way to “measure” where their organizations stand on the important subject of ethics. This session will explore a variety of code of ethics and how they interact and what to do when they conflict with one another. Participants are encouraged to bring a copy of their agency’s code of ethics to the training session. We will also explore the principles that govern ethical attitudes and conduct in the workplace and analyze good and bad behavior as well as moral duties and professional obligations. We will survey the various ethical guidelines that employers and employees are required to know and follow. And, we will discuss historical ethical dilemmas and concerns that have resurfaced with a new twist in what appears to be an “unethical” world. Additionally, participants will explore ways to minimize unethical conduct and issues surrounding employee discretions.