ProfCert Ethics

Program Overview

The Professional Certificate in Ethics is a part-time, blended learning program that explores ethical challenges in various settings. It introduces key ethical concepts and provides a foundation for ethical decision-making, problem-solving, and reasoning. The program emphasizes the importance of ethics in professional and organizational contexts, including the implementation of EDI and ESG practices.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Program Name: ProfCert Ethics
• Level: Graduate Taught (level 9 NQF)
• Credits: 10
• Duration: 6 Months
• Attendance: Part Time
• Mode of Delivery: Blended
• Objectives:
• To explore ethical challenges that arise in a range of situations, professional environments, and institutions.
• To introduce key notions and views in ethics, such as paternalism and knowledge disparity.
• To develop an in-depth understanding of the responsibility that being a professional or expert involves.
• Description:
• Legal and Regulatory Frameworks play a key role in defining how organizations conduct themselves, but ethics can enhance these frameworks by guiding the behaviors and decision-making processes of employees that are beyond Legal and Regulatory Control.
• Even small decisions may have a significant impact, and being able to act and make decisions in an ethical manner is important from the perspective of personal integrity, but it is also of enormous value to the success and good governance of the organizations for which we work.
• Good ethical decision-making can enhance an organization’s reputation with customers, regulators, and other important stakeholders.
• Good ethics also provide a strong foundation for effective Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (now referred to as ESG: Environmental, Social and Governance) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices, at the individual and organizational levels.

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