{"id":389,"date":"2018-07-24T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2018-07-24T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:59:30","slug":"when-is-it-time-to-hire-an-ethics-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/when-is-it-time-to-hire-an-ethics-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"When Is It Time to Hire An Ethics Officer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dictionary defines \u201cethics\u201d as the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.\u00a0 Every company should have a set of ethics in which their company operates under, and implementation should start at the top.\u00a0 The question has been raised who holds the people at the top accountable for the same conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an HR professional I have always felt that this was the most important part of my job.\u00a0 In order for HR to work there has to be an ethics presence.\u00a0 The ideal scene in any company would be for ALL individuals to have an ethics presence.\u00a0 When ethics presence exists, individuals think twice before doing something that they may regret later on.\u00a0 It really is a group effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The saying \u201cyou are your brother\u2019s keeper\u201d, \u201cif you see something, say something\u201d is really true. When this exist, there are opportunities to correct things immediately.\u00a0 It is the group who operates within the agreed upon guidelines, so it is also the group who holds everyone accountable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The time to hire an Ethics Officer is when there is a shift in the morale of individuals in the company.\u00a0 When transparency is no longer there and production goes down because ethics is directly tied in to all these things.\u00a0 Unless a change is made, it will continue to negatively impact the company.\u00a0 The thing about ethical issues is that someone always knows about it but chooses to do nothing about it.\u00a0 If you are part of the company you have a responsibility because it will directly or indirectly effect you.<\/span><\/p>\n

For an Ethics Officer to be effective there can\u2019t be any sides.\u00a0 It really is about the correct course of action or behavior and helping those in the organization to act accordingly.\u00a0 Who ever is in this role must have knowledge and access throughout the organization.\u00a0 They must be proactive to address situations before they become full blown problems yet use situations as teachable moments.\u00a0 This individual must be able to easily create relationships with individuals and have the ability to confront the toughest situations yet not be concerned what individuals may think about them.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Most importantly they have to have their own ethics in!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dictionary defines \u201cethics\u201d as the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.\u00a0 Every company should have a set of ethics in which their company operates under, and implementation should start at the top.\u00a0 The question has been raised who holds the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-tips-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bygeorgehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Business-Ethics-1.jpg?fit=1732%2C1154&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MUik-6h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}