Code of Ethical Standards for Training Manager

Code of Ethical Standards for Training Manager

by The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction ( ibstpi®)

Guiding Standards: Responsibilities to the Organization

1. Provide efficient, effective, workable, and cost-effective solutions that advance organizational performance goals.
2. Initiate and collaborate in organizational decision-making.
3. Educate the organization in matters of instructional design and performance improvement.
4. Inform the organization of potential conflicts of interest, and ethical, legal, and due process violations.
5. Protect the privacy, candor, and confidentiality of information and communication of the organization and its members.
6. Do not misuse organizational information for personal gain.

Guiding Standards: Responsibilities to Others

1. Be honest and fair in interactions with others.
2. Treat others with dignity and respect.
3. Facilitate individual accomplishment.
4. Do not engage in exploitative relationships.
5. Do not discriminate unfairly in actions related to hiring, retention, salary adjustments and promotion.
6. Do not represent the ideas or work of others as one's own.
7. Do not make false or deceptive claims about self, others, or the work of the training function.

Guiding Standards: Responsibilities to the Profession

1. Seek and acknowledge the contributions of others.
2. Aid and be supportive of colleagues.
3. Commit time and effort to the development of the profession.
4. Promote the enforcement of ethical standards.

Guiding Standards: Responsibility to Society.

1. Support humane, socially responsible goals and projects for the organization.
2. Ensure that training products and procedures reflect moral and ethical positions on societal issues.
3. Consider the consequences of proposed solutions upon individuals, organizations, and the society as a whole.

Source: http://www.ibstpi.org/Competencies/codesofethicalstandards.htm

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