Event Details

North Star SHRM will be hosting a virtual education session titled: 

The Development of Moral Character

by Professor David Cherrington

*This education session is eligible for an Ethics Credit

This is a virtual presentation via Zoom on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. All North Star SHRM members are invited to attend. There is no cost to attend. 

For the meeting link, log into the North Star SHRM website and click "Virtual Meeting Log-in" under Meetings & Events on the left side.

This session will describe the attributes of people with high moral character and present a model explaining how moral values improve or deteriorate. It will focus on ethical issues that human resource professionals face daily and how these interactions create changes in moral character, for better or worse.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define moral Character and the explain why character development is important to human resource professionals.
2. Demonstrate greater moral awareness regarding the moral implications of human resource practices.
3. Explain the processes involved in both increasing moral character and the “slippery slope” of moral degeneration.
4. Identify and describe the three crucial aspects of moral agency.

Speaker Bio:
David J. Cherrington was a professor of organizational leadership and strategy at Brigham Young University. He graduated from Preston High School in Preston, Idaho, and served a two-year LDS mission to New York and New Jersey. He attended Utah State University and Brigham Young University where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1966 with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics. He also attended Indiana University where he received an MBA and Doctors degree in Business Administration (DBA) in 1970.

Professor Cherrington taught at the University of Illinois in Champaign for four years before transferring to BYU in 1973. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1977 and BYU-Hawaii Campus in 1980. He was a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and the Academy of Management. He has served as President of the Personnel Association of Central Utah and as the National Director of Codification and Research for the Human Resource Certification Institute. He holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification and served from 1989 to 1995 as a member of the national HRCI board of directors.

Professor Cherrington has written three textbooks with study guides and instructors’ manuals accompanying them, including Creating Effective Organizations, The Management of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior. He is the author of two other books: Rearing Responsible Children and The Work Ethic: Working Values and Values that Work, and a coauthor of Moral Leadership and Ethical Decision Making and Helping Offenders: What Works? In addition, he is the coauthor of three reference books, including the Human Resource Certification Self-Study Program (6 Units), and two computerized training courses on ethics. He has authored or co-authored about fifty articles in professional journals and magazines. He was the coauthor of three independent study courses available on the Internet: Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Business Ethics.

He was a member of an interdisciplinary research team studying the causes of fraud and white-collar crime from 1978 to 1980 and has been active since then studying problems of dishonesty. His research has included extensive data analysis from questionnaires, qualitative research from interviews of convicts, and seminars with students and executives. In 1986 he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington D.C. David is married to Marilyn Daines Cherrington, and they are the parents of four children, all married, and sixteen grandchildren.