Ethics

3 hours of Ethics continuing education credits have been approved by the WAOIC.

The Program

Terry Thomas’s presentation will explore three aspects of business ethics. The first segment will examine natural human leadership and followership tendencies, and how organizational leaders can influence ordinary people to commit both highly unethical and highly ethical acts. The second will focus on the difference between legal compliance and ethics, and why, in business settings, simply complying with the law may not be sufficient to avoid ethics failures. The third will focus on the costs of ethics failures in business. These costs are generally not well understood or are vastly underestimated.

Presenter

Terry Thomas, president of TRT Consulting, has had a 30-year career spanning law, business, education, ethics, and enterprise risk management. Most recently, Terry served as vice president of ethics and business conduct at Premera Blue Cross. From 2003-2006, he was the vice president of ethics operations for MCI, serving as part of the turnaround team that led that company out of scandal and through its successful emergence from bankruptcy.

Marc Cohen will begin his Ethics presentation with an overview of what is ethics, as well as the importance of setting and following ethical conduct. Approaches to business ethics will include an experiment in behavioral economics. This effort will assist participants to help think about the place of ethical commitments in economic activity. The point being, economics is not a-moral space. Later, Cohen will perform a second experiment in behavioral economics. This experiment is designed to test intuitions about cooperation, treading cautiously to not call it a cooperation game, or public goods game, because the names can affect how people act.

Presenter

Dr. Marc A. Cohen joined the faculty of the Albers School in the fall of 2008 as an assistant professor. He earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a joint appointment in the philosophy department at Seattle University. His academic work concerns social contract theory and exploitation in business ethics; emotions, decision-making and rational agency in moral psychology; and more general questions in moral/ political philosophy about what makes society more than an accidental crowd.

Program Logistics

When:	7:00 - 7:20 am 7:20 - 7:45 am 7:45 - 9:00 am 9:00 - 9:15 am 9:15 - 10:30 am 10:30 - 10:45 am Registration Sign In for Washington Insurance Credits Breakfast Program Break Program Question and Answer Sign Out for Washington Insurance Credits.
Where:	McCormick & Schmick's Harborside Restaurant 1200 Westlake Ave N, Seattle 98109  •  map
Cost:	$60 members; $75 non-members and guests by registration deadline. $75 members; $90 non-members and guests after deadline or at door.
RSVP:	Phone Fax Mail Online 206-623-8632 206-575-9255 EBPA, PO Box 58530, Seattle, WA 98138-1530 Online registration is closed Reservations must be prepaid or guaranteed with your Visa, MasterCard or American Express, or send a check to the office. Checks must be received before the date of the event. (Remember, if you make a reservation and do not cancel by the deadline, you will be billed for the event.)
Deadline:	5:00 pm, January 31, 2012
WAOIC Number:	The Washington State’s Office of Insurance Commissioner now requires your WAOIC number on the sign in / sign out form in order to qualify for CE credits.