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Janelle guthrie ethics in public relations district conference
1. Finding Your Ethical Compass
Janelle Guthrie, APR
PRSA National Board of Ethics and Professional Standards
North Pacific District Conference | June 24, 2016
2. To be persuasive we must be
believable; to be believable
we must be credible;
credible we must be
truthful.
- Edward R. Murrow
3. Brief History & Evolution
• Compliance
• Enforcement
• Punishment
• Directive
• Secretive
Then
• Integrity
• Inspiration
• Motivation
• Educational
• Open
Now
4. PRSA Member Statement of Professional Values
Advocacy
Honesty
Expertise
Independence
Loyalty
Fairness
5. PRSA CODE OF ETHICS
A model for other professions, organizations, and professionals
6. FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
• Preserve the integrity of the
process of communication
• Be honest and accurate in all
communications
• Act promptly to correct
erroneous communications for
which the practitioner is
responsible
• Preserve the free flow of
unprejudiced information when
giving or receiving gifts by
ensuring that gifts are nominal,
legal, and infrequent
7. How’s your compass?
• Can you review or promote your company or
its products on social media using your
personal social media account?
– Resources: Ethical Standards Advisory ESA-20
(September 2015)
8. COMPETITION
• Follow ethical hiring
practices designed to
respect free and open
competition without
deliberately
undermining a
competitor
• Preserve intellectual
property rights in the
marketplace
9. How’s your compass
• How far should you go when discussing
concerns about a competitor with others?
– Resources: Ethics case studies: Competition +
Study Guide
10. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
• Be honest and accurate in all communications
• Act promptly to correct erroneous
communications for which the member is
responsible
• Investigate the truthfulness and accuracy of
information released on behalf of those
represented
• Reveal the sponsors for causes and interests
represented
• Disclose financial interest (such as stock
ownership) in a client's organization
• Avoid deceptive practices
11. How’s your compass?
• Can you establish a grassroots group to
support your issue or organization?
– Resources:
• Ethical case studies: Disclosure of information + study
guide
• Ethical case studies: Representing front groups with
undisclosed sponsors and engaging in deceptive
practices while representing a front group + study guide
12. SAFEGUARDING CONFIDENCES
• Safeguard the confidences
and privacy rights of present,
former and prospective
clients and employees
• Protect privileged,
confidential or insider
information gained from a
client or organization
• Immediately advise an
appropriate authority if a
member discovers that
confidential information is
being divulged by an
employee of a client company
or organization
13. How’s your compass?
• You’ve taken a new job with a competing
organization. How much of the knowledge
you’ve gained at your former organization
can you share in your new role?
– Resources: Ethics Case Studies: Expropriation of
Intellectual Property of Others + Study Guide
14. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
• Act in the best interests of the
client or employer, even
subordinating your personal
interests
• Avoid actions and circumstances
that may appear to compromise
good business judgment or create
a conflict between personal and
professional interests
• Disclose promptly any existing or
potential conflict of interest to
affected clients or organizations
• Encourage clients and customers
to determine if a conflict exists
after notifying all affected parties
15. How’s your compass?
• Your executive team has asked you to
complete a complex print job that will require
an outside company’s assistance. In
researching available companies, you learn
the most competitive company is your
spouse’s print company. Can you use this
company?
– Resources: Ethics Case Studies: Professional
conflicts of interest + study guide
16. ENHANCING THE PROFESSION
• Acknowledge the obligation to protect and enhance the profession
• Keep informed and educated about practices in the profession to
ensure ethical conduct
• Actively pursue personal professional development
• Decline representation of clients or organizations that urge or
require actions contrary to this Code
• Accurately define what public relations activities can accomplish
• Counsel subordinates in proper ethical decision making
• Require that subordinates adhere to the ethical requirements of the
Code
• Report ethical violations, whether committed by PRSA members or
not, to the appropriate authority
17. How’s your compass?
• What do you do if you learn a colleague is
“astro-turfing?”
– Resources:
• Ethics case studies: Looking the other way + study
guide
• Ethics case studies: Enhancing the profession + study
guide
18. Ethical Decision-Making
1. Define the issue/conflict
2. Identify the influencing factors
3. Identify the key values
4. Identify the defining parties
5. Select the guiding principles
6. Make a decision and justify it
19. Board of Ethics & Professional Standards
• Senior practitioners from across the nation
• Provides support to chapter ethics officers
– Resources
– Speaker bureau
• Responds to media requests
• Develops and updates Ethical Standards Advisories (ESAs)
• Develops and updates Ethical Case Studies
• Helps PRSA members with ethical dilemmas
• Plans and implements Ethics Month Activities:
– Webinars
– Tweet chats
– Articles
• BEPS@prsa.org
Brief History
First code written in 1950
Enforcement provisions were developed in 1959
Grievance board developed in 1962
Board of Ethics and Professional Standards developed in 1983
Code rewritten in 2000
Core values of PRSA members and, more broadly, of the public relations profession.
Foundation for the Member Code of Ethics
Industry standard for the professional practice of public relations.
Six fundamental beliefs that guide our behaviors and decision-making process.
Advocacy: We serve the public interest by acting as responsible advocates for those we represent. We provide a voice in the marketplace of ideas, facts and viewpoints to aid informed public debate.
Honesty: We adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and truth in advancing the interests of those we represent and in communicating with the public.
Expertise: We acquire and responsibly use specialized knowledge and experience. We advance the profession through continued professional development, research, and education. We build mutual understanding, credibility, and relationships among a wide array of institutions and audiences.
Independence: We provide objective counsel to those we represent. We are accountable for our actions.
Loyalty: We are faithful to those we represent, while honoring our obligation to serve the public interest.
Fairness: We deal fairly with clients, employers, competitors, peers, vendors, the media, and the general public. We respect all opinions and support the right of free expression.
Content providers should fully disclose paid placements and all associations with a product to support informed opinions and rational decision making.
Front groups: A member implements "grass roots" campaigns or letter-writing campaigns to legislators on behalf of undisclosed interest groups.
A member changes jobs, takes confidential information, and uses that information in the new position to the detriment of the former employer.
You are working for a large corporation on a brochure. Your PR firm recommends that you use the service of a printing company who has the best quality and price. Your spouse is the owner of the printing company. What do you do?
You inform your boss of the relationship you have with the printing company.
You remove yourself from making the decision.
You suggest to your boss that he does not hire the printing company to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
A member initially assigns some questionable client work to a non-member practitioner to avoid the ethical obligation of PRSA membership.
A PRSA member declares publicly that a product the client sells is safe, without disclosing evidence to the contrary.