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New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?

New Micro-Learning! The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Unfortunately, there are times when individuals are asked to be less than totally honest in order to paint a brighter financial picture. In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers discussing an upcoming presentation to the board of directors. The boss is pressuring his subordinate to paint a picture that is brighter than it actually is.

New Micro-Learning! In the absence of accurate, reliable, and timely information, people and organizations will make bad decisions; they will be unable to help or persuade others to make better decisions. One problem all too often faced in the workplace is when someone is asked or told to compromise their ethical code. Accurate information and maintaining our ethical code are one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

This course is designed to help you recognize, respond to and resolve difficult interactions that can stem from inappropriate or illegal behaviors in the workplace. This allows you and your organization to stay on the “right side of the line.” As a manager, it is especially important that you respond to any incidents immediately and thoughtfully.

New Micro-Learning! Deciding to how to react when you observe coworkers breaking policy or even laws can have consequences not only for them, but for you and the organization as well. If you find yourself in this type of situation, remember to use the filtering steps; evaluate the situation, evaluate the outcome of possible actions, and proceed accordingly.

New Micro-Learning! Harassment and/or discrimination in the workplace is a very serious issue. This course takes a quick look at the potential consequences of making comments about an employee’s work habits that could possibly be construed as age bias or discrimination.

Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity. This course is designed to educate you on how to create and ask legally defensible pre-employment questions based upon a structured behavioral based interview that will help you hire the right person and stay out of court.

Stereotypes about what physical jobs women can or cannot do may create illegal gender-based discrimination situations. In some very specific cases, a job could have legitimate lifting requirements that could exclude some women. However, every employee or applicant should be given an opportunity to prove that they can do the required job duties.

Hiring employees can be an expensive and lengthy process. Managers are often in a hurry to fill vacant positions in order to maintain the productivity of their departments. They are usually so focused on getting the position filled, they may not realize they have asked an inappropriate interviewing question. Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity.

New Micro-Learning! The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act overturned the Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which severely restricted the time period for filing complaints of employment discrimination concerning compensation. This course explains the act an the EEOC's longstanding position that each paycheck that contains discriminatory compensation is a separate violation regardless of when the discrimination began.