Winning Hearts and Minds: Cultural Change in Organisations to promote misconduct resistance
The culture of an organisation plays a powerful role in whether employees engage in misconduct or not. If the culture encourages and rewards compliance with organisational policies and values, corruption is less likely to occur. Changing the culture of an organisation requires commitment and leadership. Senior management and line managers are in the best position to influence ethical culture by promoting and enforcing policies and accountability controls. But how can this be done? This important issue was discussed at the Misconduct Resistance Forum on 29 June 2011.
Program:
Dr Dave Webb, Associate Professor, Business School, University of Western Australia introduced the Giving Voice to Values approach to values-based ethics and spoke on how to develop arguments to overcome the rationalisations used to justify misconduct.
Eamon Ryan, A/Executive Director, Professional Standards and Conduct, Department of Education spoke on the journey that the Department has taken since the Commission’s 2006 report into misconduct against children.
Jonathan Throssell, Chief Executive Officer, Shire of Mundaring outlined how a small organisation has implemented cultural change.
Detective Superintendent Tony Flack, Internal Affairs Unit WA Police, spoke on how the culture of the WA Police has changed over the years.
A panel discussion concluded the forum.