Event Details
SHRMA presents: The Importance of Having an Ethics Policy and How to Handle Potential Violations (Approved for SHRM 1.0 Credit)
| Date: | May 12, 2015, 11:30am – 1:30pm |
| Organizer: | Shauneen Scott |
| Location: | Mexico Room #304, Broadway Commons 1300 Broadway St, Salem, Oregon |
| Price: | $16.00 per SHRM members. $20.00 for non-members. |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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During this meeting, we will discuss the importance, as well as describe components, of a strong ethical culture within an organization.
Elements to be discussed in depth include: documenting, implementing and communicating an ethics policy; holding employees accountable to the policy; and tools for monitoring compliance, including an ethics hotline.
We will discuss a tool which can be useful for guiding ethical decision making within the organization.
We will conclude with a discussion around roles and responsibilities as they apply to ethics within the organization as well as ideas for how Human Resources can leverage internal partners to enhance and monitor the ethical climate of the organization.
Facilitator:
Pamela J. Stroebel Powers, CPA, CIA, CRMA, CPM
Powers CPA, LLC: Owner/Managing Member
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University
Contributing Assistant Professor
In July, 2014 Pamela established Powers CPA, LLC and currently serves as Owner and Managing Member. Powers CPA, LLC provides internal audit, consulting and assurance services to state and local government and non-profit entities. Pam is also a contributing faculty member for Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management and an Instructor for the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Prior to starting her own firm, Pam served as the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) for both the Oregon Lottery and the Department of Administrative Services (DAS). Her role as CAE at DAS included both managing the internal audit function as well as providing support and leadership to the internal audit community across the State of Oregon; in part by coordinating the Statewide Audit Advisory Committee and co-facilitating the State’s Chief Audit Executive Council.
Pam is an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and currently serves as a subject matter expert for the IIA’ s Global Academic Relations Committee (ARC). She previously served as a member of the Global ARC and in several leadership positions on the Salem Chapter IIA board for five years. She is also a member of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants.
