Social and Ethics Committee Training

Social and Ethics Committee Workshop

Ensure Sound Corporate by elevating your company’s social and ethical obligations through effective integration of social and ethics management into your internal organisational structures, systems and processes

11 – 12 April 2013

@ Johannesburg Corporate Conference Centre - Edenvale

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Course Overview:

“ Companies that embrace Social and Ethics Committees as an opportunity, can elevate their social and ethical responsibility to a level where it can be integrated into the corporate identity and strategy of the company,” Prof GJ Rossouw, BA (Hons), BTh, MA, PhD, CEO, Ethics Institute of South Africa , Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria.

Section 74 and regulation 43 of the New Companies Act of 2008 requires all state owned, listed companies and private companies with a public interest score of 550 and over to establish an Ethics Committee.

How has your company given expression to the requirement of the New Companies Act to establish a Social and Ethics Committee? Has it taken the shape of a ticking-the-box compliance exercise or has it resulted in your company elevating its social and ethical obligations to a strategic level? The latter is what forward-looking companies are doing.

With the legal requirement in the new Companies Act and its regulations to establish an Ethics Committee the need for organisations to review their own viewpoint of Corporate Governance is essential. Ethics Committees are mandated to observe not only compliance to externally imposed legislation and regulations but also oversee the formulation of internal policies that guide and give life to the ethical conduct of the organisation – primarily through the actions of its people.

Broadening the scope required by Ethics Committees is a growing realisation that a organisation’s performance cannot only be measured in terms of its financial impact – the emphasis on concepts like the Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet and Profits) and integrated Reporting is making organisational leadership more and more challenging. Ethics Committees will need to ensure that the organisational agenda encompasses all these concepts and concerns.

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This Social and Ethics Committee Workshop will provide you with:

· Gaining an in-depth understanding of the scope and mandate of the Ethics Committee

· An overview of the legislative and regulatory requirements impacting the formation and role of ethics and Social Committees

· An introduction to the field of ethics and its application

· Guidelines on establishing Ethical Policies and Decision Making with organisations

· A history of the development of Ethics and Social Committees

· An overview of the various ways an organisation can embrace ethical principles including

· Stakeholder Engagement and Accountability

· Integrated Reporting and the Triple Bottom Line

· Transparency

Who Should Attend:

· Directors and Decision Makers

· Senior Management

· Financial and Audit Professionals

· Public Relations Personnel

· Investor Relations Personnel

About Your Workshop Leader:

Olasesi Martins (LLM, AARB, FCIS, FCIBM, EO)

Olasesi Martins is an attorney by profession, and holds a masters degree in Corporate Law & Governance. She is a certified ethics officer with EthicSA and she is trainer on ethical matters. She is the CEO of Goldengate Consulting; she is an expert trainer on various subjects in Corporate Law. She conducts peer assessment, induction exercises and board evaluation for private and state owned enterprises.

Olasesi is a trainer or workshop facilitator for company secretaries, governance officers and company administrators. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Southern Africa (ICSA). She is a member of the Panel of Speakers for ICSA CPD Workshops. ICSA coverage is across South African, Zimbabwe, Singapore, China, Australia, Malaysia, and Canada. She is also an Associate Member of the Association of Arbitrators of Southern Africa. She is a trained conciliator/ mediator/ arbitrator with AFSA. In addition; she is a seasoned speaker in international corporate governance / company secretarial conferences.

She had been engaged by SAIPA for a national assignment involving training all over South Africa. She is an expert trainer/ governance consultant with IIR (The Institute of International Research). Olasesi has extensive experience in Corporate Law, Governance, Ethics, Compliance, Management Consulting and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Hear what past delegates of this course had to say:

“ I am grateful for the training I received and its quality”

Babalwe Ndendeni, Senior Legal Advisor, CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY

“The overall training was good”

Thuli Nhlapo, Senior Financial Accountant, CLOROX AFRICA PTY LTD

“This was very interesting and informative”

Nthabiseng Mhlongo, Head: Compliance Management, SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK

Workshop Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, 11 April, 2013

07:30 Registration & Early-Morning Refreshments

08:15 Facilitator’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Concepts and Principles

08:30 Ethics: Delving into the foundational Concepts

· What is Ethics and how is it related to individual and organisational behaviour;

· What Ethics brings to Organisations

· Ethical Concepts

· Basic Ethical Principles – the Golden Rule, Acting in the Common Good etc

· Ethical Virtues and Values – Justice, Truthfulness and Intelligent Love

10:30 Mid-Morning Refreshments

11:30 Ethical decision making: How do you get started?

· Demonstrating Ethical Intelligence – individually and corporately

· Delving into a framework for Ethical Decision Making

· Taking a Holistic view of Decision Making

· Formulation of moral judgments in decision making – making sound moral judgments

· Transparency – Accountability and taking into Account

· Looking at case studies

12:30 Networking Lunch

13:30 Ethical Decision Making Workshop

· Practical application of what you have learnt

· Case Studies and “what would you do?”

14:45 Mid-Afternoon Refreshments

15:00 Social and Ethics Committee: Coping with regulatory requirements

· The legal requirement – new Companies Act and regulations – what they say

· King III – the role of ethical leadership in Corporate Governance

· Comparison between King III and the Companies Act

15:30 Facilitator’s Closing Remarks

15:45 Close of Day 1

Day 2: Friday, 12 April, 2013

07:30 Early-Morning Refreshments

08:15 Facilitator’s Opening Remarks

Key Areas pertaining to Ethics Committees

08:30 The Responsibilities of the Social and Ethics Committee

· Legal requirement for SEC

· Exemptions from SEC requirements

· Composition of SEC

· Mandate of SEC

· Powers of SEC

· Non- compliance Issues

09:15 Exploring the “need to know” essentials of Social and Ethics Committee

· Committee Charter

· Monitoring Guidelines

· Reporting structure

· Membership & meetings

· Work plan/Board Schedule

· Relationship of SEC with other Board Committees

10:30 Mid-Morning Refreshments

11:00 Understanding c oncepts, principles and the vital role of Stakeholder Engagement

· The new Stakeholder Paradigm - Who is important (and why)?

· King III Code of Corporate Governance – Principles of Stakeholder Engagement

· Reputation Management (The new Corporate Value Framework)

· Why investors are beginning to take a greater account of ESG factors and how to best engage with them

· Incorporating sustainability & responsible competitive principles into your corporate strategy.

· Developing an integrated theory that reconciles the shareholder and stakeholder models of the firm.

12:30 Networking Lunch

13:30 A high level overview of Integrated Reporting: Getting to grips with Emerging Frameworks and Principles

· Requirement for Integrated Reporting – What is needed?

· Legislative Requirements, Corporate Governance Recommendations

· King III perspective in Integrated Reporting

14:15 Facilitated Discussion: How do pull it all together?

· Reviewing your organisation from an Ethics Perspective

· Assessing the Ethical Maturity Level of your organization

· Identifying the next steps to take towards an optimized organization

· Implementation Guidelines

15:00 Mid-Afternoon Refreshments

15:15 Q&A Session General Discussion

In this highly interactive and concluding practical session all other questions that arose during the workshop will be discussed and clarified by your trainer

15:45 Facilitator’s Closing Remarks

16:00 Close of Workshop

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