Building values based organisational cultures

Employees need to feel supported to do the right thing. Our services are designed to assist leaders to move employees from a rules based orientation to a principle based perspective that supports the values enshrined in the code of conduct, code of ethics or business principles statement. Policies are important for establishing boundaries only. It is the intentional development of an organisational context and culture that engages employees and enables them to go the extra mile.

Ethics training typically fails where it is minimal and focused on meeting regulatory expectations. It will not win the hearts and minds of employees and their commitment to help build positive workplace cultures. If people are not engaged with ethical principles they typically will not speak up about the risk issues they see or hear about that might threaten the organisation. The fear of retaliation further inhibits action and enables higher risk cultures to flourish.

We facilitate employee values alignment by promoting greater clarity around the purpose of values and codes and the benefits they deliver.