Recently, Lviv Polytechnic has started to comply with the Corporate Culture Code. Halyna Zakharchyn, Professor at the Department of Human Resource Management and Administration, the Institute of Economics and Management, Chairman of the Ethics and Discipline Committee, tells more about the document.
– What is the Corporate Culture Code?
– This is a document that contains information about the basic values and principles of the Lviv Polytechnic academic community, its professional ethics and culture, rules of interaction with business partners, the media and the public, symbols, traditions and rituals of the university, as well as – responsibility for non-compliance with the code. It is formed on the basis of world and national experience of ethical rulemaking. The methodological basis for the formation of the Corporate Culture Code is three models that determine its structural approach – honor, duty and mixed. The model of honor is built on values and does not impose mandatory sanctions for non-compliance with norms, but focuses on human conscience. The next model imposes duties and penalties for the failure to comply on members of the academic community. The third model combines aspects of the previous two. The Ethics Committee decided to chose the mixed model.
– Why do you need such a document?
– We created it in order to strengthen and develop the corporate culture of Polytechnic, to understand its mission and goals; to increase the level of motivation of the whole academic community of the university, to raise the prestige of our university in national and international educational spaces. After all, the higher education institution functions as a socio-cultural system, the functions of which are not limited only to preparing a person for professional activity, but it is a tool for the translation of culture, where the latest socio-cultural values are produced and spread, and the spiritual and intellectual potentials of society are increased.