Ethical Judgement
Gain the skills to support a climate of ethical leadership and approach ethical dilemmas with confidence. Currently only available for organisations. Register individual interest below:
$1350.00 AUD (inc GST)
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
In our complex world, ethical judgement and decision making are essential skills for business leaders.
This micro-credential is ideal for professionals from any sector seeking enhanced leadership skills and the ability to approach ethical dilemmas with confidence.
Interrogate your own personal values and ethics
Develop an understanding of your own ethical subjectivity and consider alternative viewpoints. Explore how personal and societal values influence judgement. Gain a pragmatic and comprehensive framework that builds on subjective strengths and weaknesses for ethical decision making.
Understand how organisational culture influences judgement
Explore the way organisational structure and culture shape individual and group-level judgement and decision-making. Examine how modern business and organisational contexts can either support our ethical judgement and decision-making skills or negate our moral impulses.
Gain frameworks for ethical decision making in complex scenarios
Examine sources of workplace pressure that impede ethical judgement and decision making. Develop the leadership capacity to confidently apply a comprehensive framework to ethical decision making in your own professional context.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Associate Professor Ben Neville
Associate Professor of Management and Marketing
Ben researches and teaches across business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainable business, addressing these issues from strategic, ethical and critical perspectives. He is the Gourlay Fellow of Ethics in Business and a Section Editor of the Corporate Responsibility (Theory and Qualitative) section of Journal of Business Ethics, and Sustainability in the Curriculum Fellow for the Faculty of Business and Economics and Chair of the University's Fair Trade Steering Committee.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Adaptive Leadership series
This series gives leaders and aspiring leaders the core knowledge, skills and tools to navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments.
It's been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
Explore more from the Adaptive Leadership series:
- Creativity and Innovation (Micro-credential)
- Leading Change (Micro-credential)
- Personal Effectiveness (Micro-credential)
Fees
For individuals
To take Ethical Judgement as a stand-alone micro-credential you'll pay the normal course price.
$1350.00 AUD (inc GST)
Please contact Student Support to discuss discounts and payment options for University of Melbourne staff or alumni, or to pay by invoice.
For teams
If you have three or more team members who are keen to upskill with Ethical Judgement, get in touch to discuss pricing. For large groups, we can also deliver and contextualise this course exclusively for your organisation.
Pricing on request
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Course details
Want to know more about micro-credentials? See our Frequently Asked Questions
Ethical Judgement is designed for a diverse range of professionals seeking to develop their leadership ability and knowledge.
You might be an emerging leader, seeking to enhance your leadership capabilities to complement technical knowledge and expertise, or someone wanting to advance into more senior leadership positions across any sector or organisation.
The course is also suited more broadly to anyone wanting to build their competence, capability and confidence as they progress through various career stages and job changes.
There are no eligibility requirements.
This course will equip you with the leadership skills needed to navigate the unique contemporary challenges and opportunities in Australia and globally.
It's been developed in consultation with leading professional services organisations, major business stakeholder organisations, and human resource management and organisational development practitioners.
It's aligned with the criteria for Australian Human Resource Institute accreditation and the Society for Human Resource Management certification.
By the end of this course, you will have enhanced your capacity to lead others and confidently make ethical decisions. You'll be able to:
- Inquire and evaluate sources of workplace pressure that impede ethical judgement and decision making
- Interpret how personal values and societal perspectives influence ethical judgement and decision making
- Apply a comprehensive framework incorporating alternative approaches to ethical decision making.
This course runs over four weeks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
- 9 hours of guided learning
- 13 hours private study (including discussion forums and readings)
- 20 hours assessment tasks.
Assessment:
- An integrative leadership development activity (60%)
- A short-answer and multiple-choice test (30%)
- Discussion forum and webinar participation (10%)
Ethical Judgement is part of the Adaptive Leadership series, which provides a pathway towards the subject MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.
To use Ethical Judgement in this way, you need to complete the four micro-credentials from the Adaptive Leadership series, in any order you choose, and then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90264 Adaptive Leadership.
You can use the Managing Teams series in a similar way by completing all four micro-credentials in that series, in any order you choose, and then apply for credit towards the subject MGMT90265 Managing Teams.