Organizations with strong ethics-based cultures are significantly less prone to misconduct. Driving the right culture is part of our professional responsibility, and is key to organizational success, but culture can be elusive and dynamic. In this course, you will hear typical scenarios that take place at the boardroom table and less formal conversations that happen in the hallways. We will also hear thoughts on building and maintaining an ethics-based culture from respected colleagues and experts in the field.
Through these scenarios and interviews, we’ll explore promoting culture through examining typical conversations that go on at the board table and in day-to-day operations throughout the organization.
This course includes a quiz with 5 multiple choice questions for each hour of learning and a completion certificate once all modules and quizzes are completed.
Description
Chapter 1: Conversations in the Boardroom
1. Identify the importance of demonstrating a genuine commitment to the tone at the top is a key driver of ethical culture in organizations.
2. Negate the idea that healthy alignment means total agreement among the leadership team.
3. Identify different types of diversity and support the business case for diversity on boards and in senior management.
4. Identify the systems that senior leadership must establish in order to develop and support an ethics-based culture in the organization that aligns with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
5. Determine appropriate qualitative and quantitative metrics that monitor culture and help provide accountability for decision-making in an ethics context.
Chapter 2: Conversations in the Hallways
6. Identify how the "mood in the middle" amplifies the "tone at the top" and determine how employees at all levels of the organization can reframe situations to present a more compelling argument for ethical decision-making.
7. Distinguish diversity from inclusion and identify how organizations can thrive by achieving an inclusive culture.
8. Determine how middle managers can use the tools available to them to foster and develop an ethics-based culture within their teams.
9. Determine how the experience of colleagues can be applied to your own role as an ethical leader.
EXPERT INTERVIEWS:
Patricia Harned Ph.D, CEO, Ethics & Compliance Initiative
Vivian Li, CPA, CA, CIA, Internal Auditor, PGT BC
Serge Massad, Investment Advisor, National Bank Financial
Richard Rennie, CPA, CA, CFO and Executive Director, PGT BC
Catherine Romanko, MA, LLB, Public Guardian and Trustee, PGT BC
David Ross, FCPA, FCA, Chair of CPA Canada's Unified Rules Standing Committee
Joy Thomas, MBA, C.Dir, FCPA, FCMA, CEO, CPA Canada
Applicable For
Middle and Senior Management
What to Expect
An email will be sent from CPA Manitoba to the participant within two business days of registration. The email will include information on how to access the course along with login credentials.
Registration is for this course is open until August 31.2022 and should be completed by September 30.2022, after this time, access to the course will no longer be available or refundable.
This course is designed for participants to view while following along with the course material provided. This self-study course allows the user to save their progress and return to continue later.
To receive a certificate, participants must complete a quiz at the end of the course. Unlimited quiz attempts are available until the passing grade of 70% or better is achieved. After this you will no longer have access to the quiz.
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