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BSBLDR813
Lead and influence ethical practice

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Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024


This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to apply ethical leadership and take responsibility for influencing ethical practice. It addresses establishing ethical standards, applying ethical practice into the organisation’s culture and processes and promoting ethical leadership and decision making at all levels of the organisation.

The unit applies to people who use cognitive and creative skills to review, critically analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge, in order to generate ideas and provide solutions to complex problems. They use communication skills to demonstrate their understanding of theoretical concepts and to transfer knowledge and ideas to others.

No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

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Evidence Required

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The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

develop and implement at least two ethical decision making frameworks to establish, apply and promote ethics in an organisation.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

research, develop and implement policies and procedures for managing ethical practices in an organisation

promote ethical leadership and decision making including providing leadership and creating an opportunity to promote dialogue on ethics with and between staff

establish a strategy for continuous improvement in organisational ethics.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

industry, state, national and international trends in ethical conduct

frameworks for ethical decision making/problem solving and policy setting

organisational ethics, values and standards

role of organisational codes of ethics/conduct

key features of procedural fairness

procedures, strategies or protocols that can be used to identify and address unethical conduct

legislative and regulatory context of the organisation, as it relates to ethical work practices.

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.

This includes access to:

legislation, regulations and workplace standards relevant to ethical practice

workplace documents, including organisational strategic plans and relevant organisational policies and procedures.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

develop and implement at least two ethical decision making frameworks to establish, apply and promote ethics in an organisation.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

research, develop and implement policies and procedures for managing ethical practices in an organisation

promote ethical leadership and decision making including providing leadership and creating an opportunity to promote dialogue on ethics with and between staff

establish a strategy for continuous improvement in organisational ethics.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

industry, state, national and international trends in ethical conduct

frameworks for ethical decision making/problem solving and policy setting

organisational ethics, values and standards

role of organisational codes of ethics/conduct

key features of procedural fairness

procedures, strategies or protocols that can be used to identify and address unethical conduct

legislative and regulatory context of the organisation, as it relates to ethical work practices.

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.

This includes access to:

legislation, regulations and workplace standards relevant to ethical practice

workplace documents, including organisational strategic plans and relevant organisational policies and procedures.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.
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Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Identify importance of ethics and standards for organisation 
Identify strengths, weaknesses and threats to ethical conduct in the organisation 
Develop solutions to mitigate identified threats to ethical conduct according to organisational and industry practice 
Communicate reporting procedures to staff for suspected unethical conduct according to organisational policy 
Analyse complex ethical matters according to relevant legislation, industry codes of practice and organisational standards 
Resolve complex ethical matters within scope of responsibility 
Develop and implement frameworks for ethical decision-making and policy setting 
Identify opportunities to promote ethical industry practices for organisation 
Influence the development and review of policies and procedures to include and address ethical considerations 
Create opportunity to promote dialogue on organisational values and ethics with and between staff 
Establish a strategy for continuous improvement in ethical conduct for staff 

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