Training of elites Competence, ethics and training methods

Abstract

Supervisors are among the middle elites. They manage a considerable workforce of human resources. Their roles, their manners of managing, their behaviors, their contributions condition innovation and, consequently, the survival of companies and society.

How should we train them to acquire ethical competence? This is the question that frames our research relating to the ethics and efficiency / innovation relationship. Our article is based on the assumption that the acquisition of technical knowledge is insufficient to drive organizational action to more efficiency and performance. The current trend towards the dematerialization of organizations must draw attention to the decisive roles of human behavior and their determinants. In the past, the failure of leaders to fulfill their duties was easily detectable. When the physical had dominated the production activities, control was highly possible. The decline in material activities in the face of the wave of dematerialization of business dictates the need to review the levers for the effective functioning of organizations and society as a whole. The facts of corruption, embezzlement, falsification, theft, bowel struggles, continue to abound. Innovation goes through human resources, emanating from them. Ethical competence strengthens the capacity of supervisors to manage HR effectively.