Dr. Maxwell S. Pinto leads this dynamic one-day seminar. Max is A Senior Associate with Stanton Associates and an independent business consultant and author, with vast international experience in general management, corporate analysis and training & development.

Backed by solid academic credentials, Dr. Pinto writes books on leadership, ethics, teamwork, women in the workforce, trade unions and other related areas.

Participants will understand that organizations face a downhill ride unless they adopt an ethical approach which focuses on all stakeholders, rather than on stockholders alone. 

This seminar will emphasize the importance of ethics in business, as follows:

• Leadership Guidelines: Is Money the Bottom-line?
• Stockholder vs. Stakeholder
• Ethical Leadership: character and integrity, green versus green washing
• Some Views on Ethics: Lincoln, Schweitzer, Auden, and Garrison
• Can the Code of Ethics be all embracing?
• Enforcing an Ethics Code, non-compliance, practical emphasis and approach
• Non-conventional Leaders: Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry, Jordan, Maradona, Ali, Frazier, etc.
• Discrimination: The Civil Rights Act, 1964
• Ethical decision-making: how profit is earned, fairness in employment, health, safety, stem-cell research,
• Morality, Economics, Legality, Kindness, Trust, commitment, other factors
• Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility with the Business: Wal-Mart, Starbucks, etc. 
• Ethical Challenges in HR management: asking potentially disturbing questions, etc.
• An Aristotelian Take on Business Ethics
• Sexual Harassment
• Examples in ethics: Toyota, Maple Leaf Foods, Madoff, Mulroney, Obama
• Code of Ethics  - Introduced in Quebec City on May 15, 2009.

Conclusion:  companies with well designed and implemented ethics programs incur smaller losses as a result of unethical behavior but…

Case Studies: Family Businesses, Environmental Issues/Corporate Social Responsibility, Performance Appraisal, Leadership and Teamwork, Taking Credit for Work, Labor Relations, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Policies and Discrimination, Training and Development, etc.

Seminar Objectives

Participants will learn:

• how to make ethical decisions which are in sync with the bottom line
• how to ask questions which promote ethical behaviour
• how not to be pressured by unethical individuals or organizations
• how to negotiate ethically

The course will include literature and a few prizes, including a complimentary copy of the book, “Management: Tidbits for the New Millennium!'

Lunch and refreshments will be served.           

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