The document discusses ethics and ethical behavior in the workplace. It asks questions about potentially unethical behaviors like personal use of work equipment or accepting gifts from suppliers. It also discusses common justifications people use for unethical acts and identifies key ethics principles of honesty, fairness, objectivity and responsibility. Finally, it outlines standards of ethical practice including maintaining competence, ensuring confidentiality, mitigating conflicts of interest, and disclosing information fairly.

1. Nov 16, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Sharjah Chamber of Commerce

2. How Ethical Are You?
Karim Abdelhay, CMA, CFM
President
IMA Dubai Chapter

3. Did you …..
• check your Facebook during work hours?
• use your work printer/photocopier for personal use?
• use your corporate phone in personal calls?
• report unnecessary sick leave?
• accept a gift from a supplier/vendor?
• see a violation and ignored it?

4. Conflict of Interest

5. Justifications
• Everyone is doing this.
• I deserve it.
• It doesn’t harm anyone.
• It’s not illegal.
• I don’t know the policy/rule

6. Ethics Principles
• Honesty
• Fairness
• Objectivity
• Responsibility

7. Standards of Ethical Professional Practice
• Competence
– Maintaining professional knowledge and expertise
– Adherence to laws and regulations
– Communication of constraints and recommendations
• Confidentiality
– Inform others about confidentiality
– Refrain from using confidential information for personal
advantage
• Integrity
– Mitigate conflicts of interest
• Credibility
– Disclosure of positive and negative information fairly and
objectively