Respect in the Workplace

While many people may not realize it, disrespectful behavior in the workplace is bad for the work environment. When people feel offended, embarrassed or humiliated it hurts work relationships and often lowers productivity. A respectful workplace is one where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. In a respectful workplace, people feel good about themselves and are able to focus on getting their work done.

The goal of this course is to help employers create an environment where respect is a high priority in the workplace, whereby employees experience higher productivity, enjoy working together, have a higher work quality, and perform better in customer service. As with all other HR Classroom trainings, any organization can quickly and easily bring their employees up to speed on these issues as well as fully document trainee activity. Your organization’s own policy can also be inserted directly into each training.

• Costs of a disrespectful workplace
• The role of Self-Respect
• Respecting others
• Principles of Respectful Behavior:
  • Respecting Diversity
  • Communicating with others
  • Privacy and Personal Space
  • Respecting others' ideas
  • Assigning blame and admitting mistakes
  • Making and keeping Promises
  • Negative emotions
• Respecting your workplace
• Preventing and reporting inappropriate behavior
• No retaliation policy for good faith reporting
• Your company's policy on Respect in the Workplace
• Quizzes and final review quiz

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