ETHICS & CULTURE IN THE WORKPLACE

Session Description

To emphasize that a positive corporate culture encourages employees to behave in responsible and ethical

ways, resulting in a happy workplace, team collaboration and employee

engagement.

It is an organization’s way of life.

It's about what you believe and how you behave.

It’s an organization’s personality.

What is Organizational Culture?

Includes visions, missions, values, norms,systems, habits, attitudes, written andunwritten rules, and interactions withvarious stakeholders

Shown in the way the organization conducts its business, treats employees, and the public.

Filipino Work Culture

• Titles

Director, Attorney, Engineer, Manager, Madame, Sir

• Communication

“po” and “opo”

• Hospitality, Warmth, and Friendliness

• Pasalubong

• Co-Workers as a Family

• Hardworking

• Uniform Required

• The Company as a Second Family

• Indirect communicationFilipinos are the most emotional people in the world according to Gallup (Singapore, the Philippines' near by neighbour, the least emotional). Therefore, it is not necessarily effective to raise your voice or use an aggressive tone when speaking to a Filipino.

• Lunch is sacred. It's almost always at noon so plan ahead avoiding 11:30am meetings or the 1pm possible meetings.

Snack time, or merienda, is the secondeating time in the work day. Typicallyaround 3pm, the office will be in massexodus for about half an hour for a quicksnack.

Filipinos typically don't like to work on weekends, or on holidays.

Why is corporate culture important?

• Culture decides the way employees interact in the workplace

• Helps create the brand image of the organization

• Guides employees and gives them a sense of shared direction

How leaders shape culture

• By what they do

• By what they say

• By what organization does

How employees learn culture

• Stories - anchor the present into the pastand provide legitimacy for current practices

• Rituals- repetitive sequence of activitiesthat reinforce the key values of theorganization

• Material symbols - acceptable attire,executive perks, office furnishings

• Language – jargons, special way ofexpressing oneself as a member of theorganization

Positive organizational culture

Shared Values

Leaders lead by example

Respect

Fairness in decisions

Employee recognition

Fosters open communication

Support and cooperation

Boredom and Unhappiness

Unethical workplace practices

Messy Office

Unethical workplace practices

Office Cliques

There’s a group that has inside jokes, whisper in the corner and take frequent breaks together.

Unethical workplace practices

• The Boss Is a Bully

Unethical workplace practices

• Your Ideas Are Not Taken Into Consideration

If one of your peers is completely disregarding anyfeedback or ideas you are offering then it’s a clearsign of a bad company culture. You should beencouraged to voice your thoughts and share yourknowledge in the workplace.

Unethical workplace practices

• Gossip Girls

Unethical workplace practices

• No Full Job Description/No assigned tasks

If the job description is vague, and no one canexplain what success in your role will look like,run in the other direction

Unethical workplace practices

• No Praise

You’ve done an excellent job and landed an expensive deal with a client, yet you still don’t get a thank you

• Lack of communication

Unethical workplace practices

• Uncooperative colleagues

There’s always one employee that just simply works faster than the rest. If this happens to you and you’re in a company with bad culture, you’ll end up consider moving on to bigger and better things.

Unethical workplace practices

• Humiliation

Unethical workplace practices

Toxic Workplaces Lead To

Employee burnout

Fatigue

Illness

Unproductivity

Employee disengagement

Low morale

Absenteeism

High employee turn-over

Toxic work ethics and behavior

Culture and ethics are closely connectedaspects because the beliefs of anindividual affects the way he/she willbehave in an organizational situation. Itis worth noting that individuals in theworkplace come from diverse culturalbackgrounds, and make varyingconnections to ethics.

A culture is complex, ethical goals canbe simple.

Ethics

Ethics is a philosophical term derived from the Greek word “ethos” meaning character or

custom.

Ethics are the principles that will tell us the right thing to do, or what things are worth

doing

Held by an individual or a group

Is the following statement true or false?

“Being ethical is doing what the law always requires.”

True or False?

Is the following statement true or false?

“Ethics consists of the standards of behaviour our society expects.”

True or False?

Reflections

• Reflect on the current culture of your organization or department – what goes on in and around the organization? What types of behaviors (good and bad) do you see? What norms are exhibited?

• What current culture do you want to KEEP?

• What current culture would you like to ELIMINATE?

• What elements would you like to ADD?

Many organizations know this, but still get too focused on

“doing routinary function” ... working on improving their

culture becomes a low priority

LESSON: When culture is not

appreciated, organizations will go into

a downward spiral!

Create a Positive Organizational Culture

An understanding and acknowledgment that

the essence of achieving success is

HAVING A POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL

CULTURE

What do we need?

Does HRMP have really a role in developing a

positive organizational culture?

Role of HRMPs in Developing positive workplace culture

look for candidates with positive attitude in hiring; hire character – train skills

foster positive employee behavior

ensure that top management understands employee concerns

Role of HRMPs in developing positive workplace culture

continuous L & D interventions

communication

• References:

–Smallbusiness.chron.com

–www.workplace-essentials.dtwd

–www2.deloitte.com

2018 Visayas-Wide Convergence of Human Resource Management Practitioners

hr convergence

2018 Visayas-Wide Convergence of Human Resource Management Practitioners

The Oriental Leyte, Baras, Palo, LeyteMarch 22-23, 2018