Ethics Consulting & Ethics Training:
Our approach
Overview
St James Ethics Centre's approach in Ethics Consulting and Ethics Training is very practical in nature and is linked to the ethical issues of immediate concern to the individual, business or organisation. We maintain that there is a direct relationship between applied ethics and responsible day-to-day practice.
We assist organisations in making practical connections between ethics and ‘good decisions’ which relate to their ethics documents, workplace structures and systems as well as actual practice and behaviour.
These decisions are often the result of attempting to balance three related but not synonymous areas:
- the ethical dimension
- compliance and regulation
- risk management
Each organisation needs to develop an appropriate balance of these three areas. Some organisations tend to focus solely on risk management while others focus mainly on compliance.
Our ethics consulting and training programs are focused to assist organisations to secure and sustain a sound ethical culture – which is the foundation on which all effective compliance and risk management programs must rest. Our ethics consulting and training work helps organisations to embrace all three aspects in the appropriate combination that suits the needs of our client and benefits society.
Our holistic perspective
We take a comprehensive approach to ethics based on the concept of our Holistic Model of Ethics (see below).
In her article bearing that title which was first published in Living Ethics - issue 43, autumn 2001, Suzanne Ross named the four segments as the body, heart, mind and spirit of ethics, subsequently describing them as the ‘ethical core’. Read this article about holistic ethics, along with the others in this series.
The four segments comprising the core are currently defined as:
Our Reqsec Model
(Requisites for a Sound Ethical Culture)
Building from the ‘ethical core’, an empirical model - Requisites for a Sound Ethical Culture (ReqSEC) - has been developed to examine eleven key elements required to secure and sustain a sound ethical culture. Our holistic perspective and ReqSEC model underpin all our consulting services and programs.
The layers of this model are derived from and aligned with the core.
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