Code of Ethics Flashcards
What are the 5 ethical duties of the change management community?
Honesty
Responsibility
Fairness
Respect
Advancing the dicipline
How is Honesty demonstrated
Understanding the truth and acting truthfully in communications and conduct
How is Honesty demonstrated in Communicaitons?
- Truthful at the time of communication
- Timely communication
- Enabling a safe environment for telling the truth
- Establish trust based relationships
- Respectful professional exchanges
How is Honesty demonstrated in Conduct and Behavior?
- Demonstrate integrity
- Preserve the integrity of others
- Consistent trustworthiness
- Assume responsibility for actions
How is Responsibility demonstrated?
Accountability while pursuing excellence and responding to expectations, taking ownership of decisions we did or did not make and the resulting consequences
What are nine ways to demonstrate Responsibility?
- Take into account public good
- Accepting assgnments consistent within our level of expertise
- Fulfilling commitments
- Owning errors, consequences, corrections, and communicating resolutions of our actions
- Communicate our errors
- Protecting proprietary information
- Admit when asks are beyond our skill
- Contracting work we are qualified for
- Upholding laws, regulations, etc.
How is Fairness demonstrated?
Committing to impartiality, objectivity, openness, due process, and proportionality.
What are seven ways to demonstrate Fairness?
- Treat people equitably
- Transparency in decision-making
- Free from self-interest or favoritism
- Equal access to information
- Equal access to opportunity
- Disclosing conflicts of interest
- Refraining from influencing decisions where there is conflict of interest
How is Respect Demonstrated?
High regard for self, others, reputation, safety, finances, and resources
What are eight ways to demonstrate Respect?
- Avoid disrespectful behaviours
- Act professionally, even when not reciprocated
- Treat others with dignity
- Treath others with compassion and sensitivity
- Good faith negotiating
- Refrain for improperly influencing decisions
- Refusing abusive actions
- Respecting property rights
How is Advancing the Discipline & Supporting Practitioners demonstrated?
By creating a community of professionals dedicated to delivering best practice and added value to clients
What are two ways to Demonstrate Advancement of the Discipline and Support for Practitioners?
- Avoiding infringement of intellectual property rights of clients
- Engagement in activities that enhance the credibility of the discipline
