Seminar: Ethics for HR Professionals February 6, 2009

6 CPE Credits

Today's HR professionals face tough ethical challenges. Recent financial scandals highlight the need to foster ethical behavior in the workplace and avoid the slippery slope of unethical decisions. Find out about the impact of cultural and organizational pressures to conform, and explore different ethical decision making models. Using case studies to stimulate learning and discussion, you'll increase your ability to handle ethical issues when advising others, and when you're facing them yourself. You'll leave the program better able to:

-Determine when and where ethical issues are most likely to surface
-Develop solutions, evaluate their impacts and decide on a course of action
-Use tools for handling ethical dilemmas experienced at work
-Maintain personal integrity

Speakers:
Deborah Birndorf, JD, MBA, Birndorf Law Offices, is an attorney who represents employers in all aspects of employment law, including harassment and discrimination claims, wage claims, disability claims, and misappropriate of trade secrets. She also provides preventative counseling and advice, and drafts and reviews employment contracts, employee handbooks and personnel policies.

Rachel Choppin, MA, Principal of HR 4 You, is an accomplished teacher, HR consultant and career counselor. She has successfully hired, coached, trained and transitioned hundreds of employees both as a VP of HR and a consultant. Ms. Choppin is a teaches for UCLA and UC Davis Extensions and a frequent speaker and facilitator. She is the Professional Development Chair for PIHRA District 5.

NCHRA Members: $310 / General: $390.

Official Website: http://www.nchra.org