Table of Contents/Introduction   

Part A: Ethical Leadership    Introduction

1. Ethical Leadership: Intelligent Life in the Universe   
Approximately 15 minutes
PURPOSE
To prompt discussion about the need for leaders to provide evidence of an ethical foundation on which their platforms are constructed.

2. Ethical Leadership: You're Better Ough   
Approximately 30 minutes

PURPOSE
To develop the essential leadership ability that involves considering several
viewpoints that could be applied to a given situation.

3. Ethical Leadership: Take Offense and Take the Offensive   

PURPOSE
. To heighten participants awareness of inappropriate behavior.
. To caution against the use of certain negative-impact words.
. To stimulate thought regarding appropriate actions to be taken as a result of
inappropriate behavior.

4. Ethical Leadership: Standing on Common Ground   

OBJECTIVES
To generate insight and discussion regarding the attributes of ethical leaders.

5. Ethical Leadership: False Prophets   

PURPOSE
. To better understand the effects a leaders words can have.
. To effect realization that leaders words cannot always be equated with truth
or reality.

6. Ethical Leadership: Park Your Ethicar in the Harvard Yard   

PURPOSE
To provoke thought and discussion regarding root causes of unethical behavior.

7. Ethical Leadership: You Don't Need Leaders to Tell People the Good News   

PURPOSE
. To elicit thoughts regarding best ethical practices.
. To develop awareness of the gap between the ideal and the real.
. To outline a message that might close the ethical gap.

8. Ethical Leadership: Machiavellian, Manipulative, or Masterful?   

PURPOSE
. To relate Machiavellian principles to positive business practices.
. To stimulate discussion of ethically appropriate behavior.

9. Ethical Leadership: Be-Guile   

PURPOSE
. To encourage thinking about necessary organizational changes.
. To encourage action that might result in the change actually taking place.

10. Ethical Leadership: More P-O-W-E-R to You   

PURPOSE
. To spark ideas about the correlations between power and leadership.
. To challenge participants to reach consensus about leadership statements.

Part B: Ethical Corporate Citizenship- Introduction

11. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Verbally Abusive Behavior   

PURPOSE
To make participants aware of how verbally abusive behaviors affect job
performance, organizational perspectives, and interpersonal relationships.

12. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: E-Mail Ethics   

PURPOSE
To make participants aware of personal and organizational liabilities associated with misuse of the Internet.

13. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: To Be or Not to Be... Civil   
PURPOSE
To encourage thought and discussion regarding instances when it may be
appropriate to break, bend, or ignore the rules that govern a corporate entity.

14. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Librarians Don't Rule the World!   
PURPOSE
To develop ethics awareness via imaginative depictions.

15. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Its for a Good Cause   
PURPOSE
To encourage more ethical behavior with little things, which, when considered as a totality, are immensely costly for the organization.

16. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Flirting with Danger   
PURPOSE
To make participants aware of personal and organizational liabilities that follow certain actions.

17. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Leader of the PAC   
PURPOSE
To provide alternatives to actions that may be troublesome.

18. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Lobbying for Positions   
PURPOSE
. To develop the irreducible essence of a company.
. To help participants clarify values.

19. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Neutron Neutrality   
PURPOSE
To engender creative ideas for making job-loss less traumatic.

20. Ethical Corporate Citizenship: Whatever It Takes   
PURPOSE
. To explore the ramifications of defying a managers suggestion.
. To provide ideas for achieving clarity regarding job expectations.

Part C: Ethical Salesmanship - Introduction   

21. Ethical Salesmanship: A Stick in Time Saves Nine   
PURPOSE
To develop insight concerning the ethical climate by regarding it from a fresh
perspective.

22. Ethical Salesmanship: A Sale of Need Is a Sale Indeed   
PURPOSE
To encourage buyer-input while a sale is being conducted.

23. Ethical Salesmanship: Info fo' You   
PURPOSE
To encourage full disclosure regarding products or services.

24. Ethical Salesmanship: Ethics from A to Z   
PURPOSE
To broaden the salespersons range of successful behaviors.

25. Ethical Salesmanship: Sell-ebrities   
PURPOSE
. To specify the qualities associated with widely admired individuals.
. To plan a sales pitch that illustrates some of those qualities.

26. Ethical Salesmanship: News-Capers   
PURPOSE
To encourage thinking about what does and what does not constitute the
organizations values.

27. Ethical Salesmanship: Inside Scoops   
PURPOSE
To stimulate thinking about the kind of information that can be/should be shared with customers without jeopardizing organizational policies.

28. Ethical Salesmanship: Ethics Audit   
PURPOSE
To generate discussion regarding elements of the organizational culture that may need strengthening.

29. Ethical Salesmanship: Take the "Ow" Out of "Now"   
PURPOSE
To provide participants with a list of words that can be used to describe a product or service.

30. Ethical Salesmanship :Drug Testing: An Employers Right or an Employees Wrong?   
PURPOSE
. To point out the potential danger of making accusatory statements.
. To provide assistance in making determinations regarding a drug policy.

Part D: Ethical Management  Introduction 

31. Ethical Management: Ethics Evaluation   
PURPOSE
To enable participants to learn what the official ethics policy means to them and how they and colleagues would contribute to enforcing that policy.

32. Ethical Management: Rites, Rights, and Wrongs   
PURPOSE
To explore the issue of individual rights and the boundaries that may be crossed in the exercise of those rights.

33. Ethical Management: That Feather in Your Cap   
PURPOSE
. To encourage thought and discussion regarding instances when it may be
necessary to challenge managements position.
. To develop positive approaches for handling this type of situation.

34. Ethical Management: Alphabet Soup-ervision   
PURPOSE
To encourage creative thinking regarding ethical decisions managers may face.

35. Ethical Management: Manager-Management   

PURPOSE
. To examine the communication process.
. To explore the ethical aspects of steps in that process.

36. Ethical Management: You Know There's a Child   
PURPOSE
To compile a list of ways to demonstrate ethical management is being practiced.

37. Ethical Management: Will the Real Ethical Manager Please Stand?   
PURPOSE
To develop awareness of the gap between perceptions of ethical behavior and the reality on which those perceptions are based.

38. Ethical Management: Codified Ethics   
PURPOSE
To create a set of standards for use in the workplace.

39. Ethical Management: Stand Up for Standards   
PURPOSE
. To develop awareness of ethical standards-ones own as well as those of
colleagues.
. To engage participants in the learning process known as peer learning.

40. Ethical Management: Perform as a Norm   
PURPOSE
. To acquaint participants with positive tools for narrowing the gap between
task demands and earmarked resources.
. To effect realization that fear is a negative and sometimes unethical way to
motivate employees.

Part E. Ethical Teamwork Introduction  

41. Ethical Teamwork: Blindfold Obstacle Course   
PURPOSE
To develop awareness of the need for trust among team members.

42. Ethical Teamwork: Duty in General   
PURPOSE
To encourage discussion/action regarding the duty of colleagues to provide a
safe work environment.

43. Ethical Teamwork: Judgment Daze   
PURPOSE
To apprise participants of legal outcomes that may prevent them from engaging in unlawful, if not unethical, behavior.

44. Ethical Teamwork: Information Age-ing   
PURPOSE
To sharpen awareness of casual phrases that could lead to charges of age
discrimination.

45. Ethical Teamwork: Whistle-Blown in the Wind   
PURPOSE
. To develop recognition that there are several choices possible in virtually any
situation.
. To discuss possible courses of action to be taken when legal, moral, and/or
ethical violations have occurred.

46. Ethical Teamwork: How Do You Spell "L-E-A-D-E-R"?   

PURPOSE
. To develop awareness of the traits possessed by effective team leaders.
. To evaluate the pros and cons of charisma for a team leader.

47. Ethical Teamwork: Declarations of Dependence   
PURPOSE
To highlight the damage that can be caused (to ones image as well as to the
organization itself) through overly strong assertions.

48. Ethical Teamwork: There Is No Terror    
PURPOSE
. To explore one cause of fear in the workplace.
. To better understand the ethical and unethical approaches to dealing with fear.

49. Ethical Teamwork: This Is the House That MAC Built   
PURPOSE
. To enhance a collaborative spirit.
. To analyze the elements of ethical teamwork.

50. Ethical Teamwork: Story Glory   
PURPOSE
. To encourage the use of storytelling as a convincing form of communication.
. To use stories to illustrate ethical team-related behaviors.

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