We have designed several engaging and practical organisational values induction modules for financial sector graduate intake programs.  Often these modules are developed in conjunction with the organisation’s leadership competency model and are designed to:

Learning Objectives

• To educate new recruits in the broad field of values, ethics and governance accountability’s while at work
• To locate organisational values within the wider realm of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and modern day governance accountability’s
• To develop participant skills in identifying possible challenges in the workplace and how to apply values as a problem solving model to resolve these
• To assist new recruits to identify their personal values and how they do or do not align with the organisation’s stated values
• To develop skills in raising issues of concern within an organisational context

Learning Outcomes

1.  Developed understanding of the broad arena of workplace values today and their relationship to an organisation’s reputation and its social and legal license to operate

2.  Developed participant understanding of the boundaries between organizational and personal values and the reasons why organisation’s and professions develop value statements

3.  Build understanding of what is expected in meeting the principles and values of the organisation’s values, Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct

The Learning Module/Package

The principles used throughout this module are adult learning principles and we incorporate experiential learning opportunities.  Our experience is that values in a 21st Century context cannot be taught as an academic subject.  Students need to work with ‘real world’ scenarios and be able to contextualize their own meaning making by working through their own responses to case studies.  We use a viewpoints framework to promote multiple perspectives and then assist participants to understand the consequences of their chosen actions on different organisational stakeholders.

These consequences are measured in both social and financial terms and participants learn the consequences of their choices in terms of building or losing their employer’s economic and social capital.

Throughout these exercises personal accountability’s are highlighted.