Our Policies
Temple David Code of Conduct & Board and Leadership Guiding Values
Minimum Standards of Conduct and Integrity
Applying to Temple David community including leadership, members, affiliates other volunteers & employees
Personal integrity - We act with care and diligence and make decisions that are honest, fair, impartial, and timely, and consider all relevant information.
Relationships with others - We treat people with respect, courtesy and sensitivity, and recognise their interests, rights, safety and welfare.
Accountability - We use Temple David resources in a responsible and accountable manner that ensures the efficient, effective and appropriate use of human, financial and physical resources, including property and information.
Board and Leadership Guiding Values
Participatory management – we emphasise collaboration and partnership between Temple management, leadership and members, to develop policies and plans, to take on challenges, and to achieve successes for both the Temple community and the progressive Jewish movement.
Just management – we recognise and value diversity and difference to achieve the best for our Temple community through empathetic listening, responsiveness, and if mutually agreed, with coaching or mentoring.
Transparent and accountable management – we create a proactive atmosphere of taking responsibility for actions, with open and honest communication.
Consensual management – we base our working relationships on
- dialogue and deliberation (rather than advocacy and win/lose debate);
- cooperation (rather than discordance, division and aggression) and,
- consensual decision-making and conflict resolution, aiming to seek common ground (rather than immediately reverting to a majority vote)
