By Amy Swenson … There is a significant and measurable relationship between the collective character reputation of senior leaders and the conditions for compliance in a workplace. And this correlation extends to the bottom line. Conversely, leadership teams that do not demonstrate characteristics of integrity, personal responsibility, compassion and forgiveness Read more…
By Ingrid Fredeen … Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 months, you know about the recent spate of high-profile sexual harassment allegations and the #MeToo movement. According to NAVEX Global’s 2018 Ethics & Compliance Training Benchmark Report, these movements appeared to have motivated a re-evaluation of ethics and Read more…
By David Banks … The employee experience is defined by feedback. You do good work, you get a thumbs up. You do bad work, you get a thumbs down. You do great work and people lift you up on their shoulders and put your picture on the wall. This is Read more…
By Chai Feldblum … We stand at a moment now in which it is possible to make significant and sustainable change in our workplaces to stop harassment. And we can stop harassment based not only on sex, but on race, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. The Read more…
By Matt Kelly … Now that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is nearly here, it’s time for ethics and compliance officers to panic more efficiently about all the challenges that lie ahead. One good place to start: how to fulfill the GDPR’s right to be forgotten. Conceptually, that right is easy Read more…
By Ed Petry and David Bank … Years ago, before Enron and the avalanche of business ethics scandals that followed, there was a theory that predicted who was most likely to violate company ethics and compliance policies. According to the theory, mid-level employees who had plateaued in their career were Read more…
By Shon Ramey … There’s this thing called the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? Few regulatory changes have inspired more anxiety or frenzied activity than the EU’s new privacy rules. Scheduled to go into effect this May – only about four months from now Read more…
By Ingrid Fredeen … Sexual harassment is not a new issue. However, awareness of, and tolerance for it has evolved in recent years. What’s different now is that we have reached a tipping point – a reckoning, if you will – for organizations and their leaders. THE POWER IS BEGINNING Read more…
By Bob Conlin … Does your organization invest in compliance, or just pay for it? This is not a rhetorical question. There’s a big difference between merely covering the expense of a program and investing in it. Investment decisions are strategic. They are based on a business case and cost/benefit Read more…
By Matt Kelly If ethics & compliance officers ever needed one more reason to embrace a speak-up culture, here it is: thanks to modern technology, employees are already speaking among themselves more loudly than ever before. The latest vehicle for all this speaking up is a wave of anonymous online Read more…