What is ETHOS 21st ?

ETHOS 21st is a management consulting organization that specializes in human resources policy development and implementation, change management, performance management, executive compensation, executive coaching, broadband pay systems, employee problem resolution, supervisory and management communications and ethical behavior, and EEO and sexual harassment cases.

“ETHICS in the 21st Century” is a unique seminar that exposes supervisors and managers to the ethical expectations of the leadership in their companies. The training allows each participant to recognize ethical dilemmas in their life experiences, current events, and ethical issues that frequently arise in a business setting. The approach is primarily structured to deal with management and supervisory staffs, but can be modified for presentation to non-management staff, customer service associates, and other groups of employees.

The program is not intended to be a "course" in ethics, but rather an experience for supervisors and managers to allow them to realize the far-reaching extent of their decisions as supervisors, and to provoke them to think more carefully about their daily decisions before committing themselves to a decision or course of action that may have long-lasting effects on the business entity, and on their relationships with their staffs.

The program draws on the fact that "ethical standards" we expect supervisors and managers to meet are largely their own, but that their actions will be judged by others and that there is a range of ethical behavior that is generally recognized as "acceptable."

Participants will learn that the true test of ethical behavior is "in the eye of the beholder," and that they must consider not only the logic and factual nature of their actions and decisions, but the way in which those actions and decisions will be perceived by their peers, subordinates, corporate policy-makers, customers, the media, and the public.