Ethics

We are offering 3 Hours of education on Ethics.

Terry Thomas’s presentation will explore three aspects of business ethics. The first segment will examine natural human leadership and followership tendencies, and how organizational leaders can influence ordinary people to commit both highly unethical and highly ethical acts. The second will focus on the difference between legal compliance and ethics, and why, in business settings, simply complying with the law may not be sufficient to avoid ethics failures. The third will focus on the costs of ethics failures in business. These costs are generally not well understood or are vastly underestimated.

Presenter

Terry Thomas, president of TRT Consulting, has had a 29-year career spanning law, business, education, ethics, and enterprise risk management. Most recently, Terry served as vice president of ethics and business conduct at Premera Blue Cross. From 2003-2006, he was the vice president of ethics operations for MCI, serving as part of the turnaround team that led that company out of scandal and through its successful emergence from bankruptcy.

John McLean’s presentation will examine some of the abiding conditions that constrain effective and ethical decision-making within groups. Through the use of film and anecdotal reports, as well as relying on some of Mr. Thomas’s presentation, he will highlight some deep and troubling human tendencies to conform, to accept authority, and to embrace role identities. The presentation will then focus on Kohlberg’s well-researched theory of moral development to suggest that the seeming constraints also present opportunities for developing healthier (i.e., more ethical) organizations

Presenter

John McLean, Senior Lecturer, Seattle University, has been teaching business law and ethics at Seattle University for the past ten years. Before he began teaching full-time, he held a number of positions in the public and private sector, including sixteen years as a commercial litigator, clerking for a Washington Supreme Court Justice, managing real property acquisitions for Sound Transit’s commuter rail line, and working as a manufacturing engineer at The Boeing Company.

Program Logistics

When:	7:00-7:45 am 7:45-10:45 am Registration & Breakfast Program
Where:	Washington Athletic Club in the Noble Room 1325 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 - map Parking is available in the WAC garage. (1 block North of the WAC on 6th)
Cost:	$60 members; $75 non-members and guests by registration deadline. $75 members; $90 non-members and guests after deadline or at door.
RSVP:	Phone Fax Mail Online 206-623-8632 206-575-9255 EBPA, PO Box 58530, Seattle, WA 98138-1530 Online registration is closed Reservations must be prepaid or guaranteed with your Visa, MasterCard or American Express, or send a check to the office. Checks must be received before the date of the event. (Remember, if you make a reservation and do not cancel by the deadline, you will be billed for the event.)
Deadline:	5:00 pm, February 1, 2011
WAOIC Number:	The Washington State’s Office of Insurance Commissioner now requires your WAOIC number on the sign in / sign out form in order to qualify for CE credits.