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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Establish ethical standards
   • Identify importance of ethics and standards for organisation
   • Identify strengths, weaknesses and threats to ethical conduct in the organisation
   • Develop solutions to mitigate identified threats to ethical conduct according to organisational and industry practice
   • Communicate reporting procedures to staff for suspected unethical conduct according to organisational policy
2. Apply ethics in organisation
   • Analyse complex ethical matters according to relevant legislation, industry codes of practice and organisational standards
   • Resolve complex ethical matters within scope of responsibility
   • Develop and implement frameworks for ethical decision-making and policy setting
3. Promote ethics in organisation
   • Identify opportunities to promote ethical industry practices for organisation
   • Influence the development and review of policies and procedures to include and address ethical considerations
   • Create opportunity to promote dialogue on organisational values and ethics with and between staff
   • Establish a strategy for continuous improvement in ethical conduct for staff

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

develop and implement at least two ethical decision making frameworks to establish, apply and promote ethics in an organisation.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

research, develop and implement policies and procedures for managing ethical practices in an organisation

promote ethical leadership and decision making including providing leadership and creating an opportunity to promote dialogue on ethics with and between staff

establish a strategy for continuous improvement in organisational ethics.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

industry, state, national and international trends in ethical conduct

frameworks for ethical decision making/problem solving and policy setting

organisational ethics, values and standards

role of organisational codes of ethics/conduct

key features of procedural fairness

procedures, strategies or protocols that can be used to identify and address unethical conduct

legislative and regulatory context of the organisation, as it relates to ethical work practices.

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