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More employee lawsuits are being won on grounds of retaliation than for any other reason. Remember, retaliation means “revenge.” In employment law, it involves an employer taking an adverse action against an employee who has engaged in a legal activity—an activity that the law believes is in the public interest. When your company is sued for unlawful retaliation, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. If you go to trial, what matters is how the situation looks to a jury.

New Micro-Learning! Although living our daily lives with ethics and integrity may seem simple enough, often times we can find ourselves in difficult situations when making the right decision is not always easy or clear. You will face choices every single day that impact your success, and the success of your organization.

Ethics violations put the company and our work at risk. We count on you to conduct yourself with integrity and to help influence others to also act with honesty and professionalism. If you notice a co-worker violating the code of business ethics, it is your ethical obligation to them, to the company, and to yourself to gather your thoughts about the situation and organize an appropriate response to help minimize potential risks.

With critical legal information to guide decision making, this program helps managers understand their responsibilities under the ADA and how to sort through tough issues and respond effectively. Your managers will learn how the Act impacts them and their employees and find key answers to their most frequently asked questions.

The intent of the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance work and family responsibilities by guaranteeing them leaves in certain situations. Trying to decipher the in's and out's of the law can be a challenge. This program gives you a better understanding of the FMLA.

Completely Updated! Discipline and termination are critical legal issues managers deal with regularly, though not always effectively. This new version of our best-selling program remedies that with plain-speak language and practical examples that show managers protocol and procedures to follow in order to stay out of court. Streaming course version.

New Micro-Learning! Integrity is everyone’s responsibility. By doing your part to build a business culture of high integrity, you can achieve greater personal job satisfaction and help others to do the same. As a leader, you have a responsibility to promote a culture of integrity in your organization. It starts with your own behavior and by showing your employees that ethical conduct is important. Integrity happens when you make it safe for employees to speak up and prevent retaliation against anyone who does.

New Micro-Learning! Remote teams and mobile workers are becoming more and more popular among businesses. This makes tracking an employee’s efficiency and productivity very difficult. This course tackles time theft… when an employee accepts pay from their employer for work that they haven’t actually done, or for time they have not actually put into their work. Time theft can certainly hurt business by decreasing employee productivity and costing the organization money.

New Micro-Learning! Everybody should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to their business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. What you say speaks volumes about how you think about your business, how smart you are, and your personal integrity.

New Micro-Learning! Some organizations have SOX or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to consider when it comes to policy. All publicly traded companies are now required by law to set in place accounting internal controls – ones that measure the organization’s effectiveness. Policies, like getting three bids, is an example of the many kinds of internal controls that must be followed – noncompliance is against the law.

New Micro-Learning! Cutting corners can involve any number of actions. It could mean ignoring policies, regulations, or laws. It might involve short-cutting the processes that are in place. It could mean cutting quality. It might mean ignoring or taking significant risks. It could involve lying or covering up problems.

New Micro-Learning! Maintaining confidentiality at the workplace is of utmost importance in today’s competitive world to ensure that information about customers, clients, and employees are safe. This course delves into the importance of keeping things confidential.

New Micro-Learning! High-profile corporate scandals have received considerable media attention in recent years. Management should have a keen interest in avoiding such outcomes by encouraging employees to report unethical conduct anonymously. Unfortunately, many employees struggle with ethical decisions because they feel that they cannot remain anonymous so unethical behavior persists.

New Micro-Learning! Supporting the growth and development of your staff is vitally important in helping them be as productive and successful as possible in their current role, encouraging motivation and retention, and setting them up for career opportunities. Compliance with organizational training is one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

New Micro-Learning! In this course, we'll look at software theft. By the time we're finished, you'll be in a better position to not only recognize the kinds of ethical situations that can lead to problems; but you'll also be better prepared to really think through the issues and figure out what's the best choice of action for you and your organization.

New Micro-Learning! Most of the ethical misconduct in an organization is the small bad choices that employees make day to day. Breaking simple policies or taking advantage of privileges and benefits (like PTO) may not seem like serious ethical misconduct – but these infractions are a reflection of what kind of employee you are or could become. Small bad choices may lead to bigger bad choices.

New Micro-Learning! Individuals make ethical choices, not organizations. In most cases, we are not talking about bad people. Granted, there some out there making conscious unethical choices, but this is the exception, not the rule. It’s usually good people that make bad choices. In this short course, you’ll observe an individual who discovers that her department is under budget. The question is will she make bad choices with this knowledge?

New Micro-Learning! The value of honesty in business has obvious and subtle implications. Unfortunately, there are times when individuals are asked to be less than totally honest in order to paint a brighter financial picture. In this course, you’ll observe two coworkers discussing an upcoming presentation to the board of directors. The boss is pressuring his subordinate to paint a picture that is brighter than it actually is.

New Micro-Learning! In the absence of accurate, reliable, and timely information, people and organizations will make bad decisions; they will be unable to help or persuade others to make better decisions. One problem all too often faced in the workplace is when someone is asked or told to compromise their ethical code. Accurate information and maintaining our ethical code are one of many ethical issues that come up in the workplace.

New Micro-Learning! Deciding to how to react when you observe coworkers breaking policy or even laws can have consequences not only for them, but for you and the organization as well. If you find yourself in this type of situation, remember to use the filtering steps; evaluate the situation, evaluate the outcome of possible actions, and proceed accordingly.