Ethical Issues for Training Practitioners

Abstract

Why Bother With Ethics? Have you ever set up a group process learning activity which leaves some participants angry or unhappy and not knowing what to do with their feelings? When you use role play, how does a “bad” character role get allocated? Do you believe that a management order to carry out a certain type of training spares you from asking whether it is right to do it? These are all examples of ethical conflicts that can arise in day‐to‐day training, and it is questions such as these that we need to face as training practitioners.