Fundamentals of Work Ethics and corporate culture

1. WORK ETHICS
&CORPORATE CULTURE
Yinka Olaito
www.yinkaolaito.com
www.michaelsageng.com

2. ETHICS?
It deals with moral principles and social
values. It helps us to classify what is good
and what is bad? It tells us to do good
things and avoid doing bad things.

3. ETHICS?
Ethics helps us to detach good from bad,
right from wrong, fair from unfair, moral
and immoral and proper and improper
human action

4. WORK ETHICS?
The belief that work has a moral benefit
and an inherentability to strengthen
character.
-Business Dictionary

5. WORK ETHICS
Good work ethic is simply doing your main
job in the best manner
possible...professionally.

6. WORK ETHICS
Working intensely, not giving in to useless
distraction, being available to provide
assistance at work, happy to take and give
suggestions, etc. It also means that your
work has its place in your entire life i.e.
family life, social life, and other obligations
also have to be attended to

7. WORK ETHICS
Getting to work on time, being self-
directed, having initiative, a positive
attitude with your fellow workers and the
customer, performing high quality work,
not being a clock watcher and most of all
knowing how to be loyal to the company,
and the people you work with

8. Dependability

9. Enthusiasm and commitment

10. Productivity

11. Collaboration and teamwork

12. Character

13. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Have a positive attitude to work

14. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Ensure you retain a place for fun and
relaxation in your work regime

15. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Show respect for the decision maker even
if you disagree with the decision

16. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Understand that great teamwork relies on
genuine interpersonal relationships

17. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Exercise restraint in times of stress in
the workplace

18. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Be empathetic with your work
colleagues

19. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Treat co-workers with sensitivity

20. Work ethics
Fundamentals
Be prepared to do everything you can
to support an agreed project

21. Corporate culture
Culture: the “glue” that holds an
organization together.
the “compass” that provides
directions.

22. Work ethics and
Corporate
culture
Corporate culture is the set of
assumptions, beliefs, practices, formal and
informal rules and attitudes about how a
company operates
- Anthony Cerminaro

23. Reasons for
disconnect
We pick up someone else's ringing
phone."

24. Reasons for
disconnect
A company's culture is often buried so
deeply inside rituals, assumptions,
attitudes, and values that it becomes
transparent to an organization's
members only when, for some reason,
it changes.
–Rob Goffee

25. Reasons for
disconnect
The oppressive atmosphere in most
companies resembles downtown
Calcutta in summer.
-Christopher Bartlett

26. Despite these:
Ask yourself: Why am I on the payroll

27. Despite these:
Ask yourself: What are my Kpi/Kra

28. Despite these:
Assess the true value of everything

29. Despite these:
Note your highest -value activities

30. Despite these:
What can I do that will make real
difference

31. In closing
It's the action, input... that's important.
You have to do the right thing. It may not
be in your power, may not be in your time,
that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't
mean you stop doing the right thing. You
may never know what results come from
your action. But if you do nothing, there
will be no result.
-Mahatma Gandhi

32. Conclusion
Do more than belong: participate. Do more
than care: help. Do more than believe:
practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do
more than forgive: forget. Do more than
dream: work.”
― William Arthur Ward

33. Q&A

34. CONTACT
Yinka Olaito
Michael Sage Consulting
www.michaelsageng.com
info@michaelsageng.com
Tel:234 7061194389