Code of conduct

Responsible and ethical attitudes and actions are part of good scientific practice and are part of Karlstad Business School’s mission: “We educate responsible professionals and conduct research with high societal impact”. As an employee and/or student, in physical and digital meetings and on social media, you are expected to:

• Behave encouraging towards others and to contribute to a good working environment for all, which results in a safe and secure workplace that promotes the development of people as well as knowledge
• Use your right to debate opinions, thoughts, political beliefs, and various social issues responsibly 
• Discuss substantive issues, do not resort to personal attacks/threats
   
• Treat everyone you are in contact with, in all situations, in a respectful manner
• Not offend anyone, neither students nor academics/supervisors/other employees
• Not subject anyone to uncomfortable  treatment
   
• Not make unpleasant comments
• Not subject anyone to unwanted jokes
• Exercise zero tolerance against sexual  harassment
   
• Exercise zero tolerance against  discrimination/harassment
• Exercise zero tolerance against ostracism

If you as a student or employee violate the Code of Conduct, it may have disciplinary or legal consequences.

Have you been violated, harassed or treated derogatory? A violation is any form of negative treatment and/or attack on someone’s dignity or integrity. To violate someone is to disregard the equality of all human beings. If the violation has to do with ethnicity, religion or other beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or transgender identity or expression, it is considered harassment in the legal sense. Every case of violation, harassment, or derogatory treatment needs to be dealt with individually.

Below are some pieces of advice on how to act if you have been subjected to harassment of any kind:

• Document what has happened.
• As a student - contact your course coordinator, Programme Leader, the Student Ombudsman or those responsible for investigations concerning equal conditions.
• As an employee - contact your immediate manager and, if necessary, consult with the principal safety officer, your union representative, or the HR department.

If needed, both students and employees can also contact the university’s chief security officer and/ or Legal Counsel.

” Without mutual respect, the social fabric of science unravels, and the pursuit of scientific aims slows down” (David B. Resnik).