Leadership Cluster: Ethical Practice Flashcards
Name the two competencies in the Leadership Cluster.
Leadership & Navigation
Ethical Practice
What is Ethical Practice?
The K&S needed to pursue personal and professional integrity and to promote the core values of an organization.
How many subcompetencies are under Ethical Practice?
3
What are Ethical Practice’s subcompetencies?
Personal Integrity
Professional Integrity
Ethical Agent
What are the desired outcomes of Ethical Practice?
D&I in hiring decisions.
Confidentiality of sensitive employee data.
Protection from adversarial employee behavior.
Personal Integrity Subcompetency: What is it?
Demonstration of high level of integrity in personal relationships.
Personal Integrity Subcompetency: All HR professionals must…
- Show consistency between espoused values and actions.
- Acknowledge mistakes and demonstrate accountability.
- Acknowledge biases and work to become more self-aware.
- Serve as a role model of personal integrity.
Personal Integrity Subcompetency: Advanced HR professionals must…
- Bring potential conflicts of interest or unethical behavior to the attention of the senior leadership.
- Help others to identify and understand their own biases.
Professional Integrity Subcompetency: What is it?
Demonstration of high levels of integrity in professional relationships.
Professional Integrity Subcompetency: All HR professionals must…
- Not take adversarial action based on personal biases.
- Maintain privacy and comply with laws that require reporting unethical behavior.
- Use discretion and inform all parties of the limits of confidentiality and privacy.
- Maintain knowledge of ethical privacy standards and keep up to date with laws that may shape the HR practice.
- Lead investigations fairly without biases.
- Provide honest, constructive feedback when situations concerning ethics arise.
Professional Integrity Subcompetency: Advanced HR professionals must…
- Withstand politically motivated pressure.
- Balance ethics, organizational success, and employee advocacy.
- Establish HR as a credible and trustworthy resource.
- Align HR and business practices with ethics laws and standards.
Ethical Agent Subcompetency: What is it?
The ability to cultivate the organization’s environment and ensure that policies and practices reflect stated values.
Ethical Agent Subcompetency: All HR professionals must…
- Empower all employees to report conflicts of interest and ethical violations without fear of reprisal.
- Take steps to mitigate biases in HR and other business decisions.
- Maintain appropriate levels of transparency.
- Identify, evaluate, and communicate to leadership potential conflicts of interest and ethical violations.
- Ensure staff have access to and understand the organization’s ethical standards.
Ethical Agent Subcompetency: Advanced HR professionals must…
- Advise senior leadership of potential conflicts of interest and ethical violations.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to support internal ethics controls.
- Develop and provide expertise for HR standards, policies, and ethics controls that protect employee confidentiality and minimize organizational risk.
- Create and oversee programs that promote ethical culture.
- Develop HR policies and initiatives that meet a high standard of ethics and integrity.
- Ensure all investigations are conducted in a timely, thorough, and impartial manner.
- Audit and monitor HR policies to ensure adherence to ethical standards.
- Design and oversee training and development programs concerning ethical practices.
