February
2004 Program:
Assessing and
Creating an Ethical Climate
February
25 (Oakbrook) and February 26 (Chicago)
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Wednesday,
February 25
Where:
Hamburger University, McDonald's, 2915 Jorie Blvd, Oak Brook, IL - Directions
Agenda:
6:30 - Social and networking; 7 pm - Meeting begins
Cost:
Free to members, $15 to nonmembers
RSVP
essential (even if you only think you MIGHT come)-see below: Please
call (773) 561-4919 or email odnchicago@aol.com |
Thursday,
February 26
Where:
Harris Bank, 111. W. Monroe, 20th Floor, (20C), Chicago
Agenda:
6 to 7 pm, Open Space; 7 to 9 pm, Program
Cost:
Free to members, $15 for Nonmembers
RSVP:
Unnecessary |
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Assessing
And Creating An
Ethical
Climate: An OD Challenge
Collins
(Good to Great), de Geus’ (The Living Company), Kouzes and Posner
(The Leadership Challenge) and others have reminded us that ethical
companies can be high-performing companies. Yet recent events remind
us that organizational ethics is in crisis. What can the OD professional
do to help organizations create a climate of ethical thinking and behaving?
This session takes a scientific approach to ethics, moving it from "soft"
to "hard" considerations.
It
explores:
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Ethics
as a "hard" science· The 9 pathways to ethical performance in an
organization
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The challenge
of measuring ethics in an organization - How to escape the measurement
traps:
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espoused
vs. lived theory
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unidimensional
definitions of ethics
-
managerial
myopia
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Preliminary
research demonstrating the gaps that can be addressed by the OD practitioner
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Implications
for us, here, now, tonight
Speaker:
K.T.
Connor, PhD, a Social Psychologist, has degrees from the University
of Southern California and Case Western Reserve University. She has
been involved in organizational development work for over 25 years, working
with such companies as IBM, GTE, Motorola, Ford Motor Company, PSEG Power,
and Merrill Lynch. She has also worked with health care facilities,
school systems, volunteer and paid boards, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
She
recently completed a five year term as President of the Creative Education
Foundation--home of the Creative Problem Solving Institute and legacy of
Alex Osborn, formulator of “brainstorming” and founder of the global ad
agency BBDO.
She
is currently a Director of the Product Development & Management Association.
She is a member of OD Network, ASTD, ISPI, and ATP. Figuring "somebody
has to do it," she is living on Spanish-moss-magical Saint Simons Island
off the coast of Georgia--when she’s not on an airplane off to see a client. |
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