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 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…
The economy continues to wheeze along unimpressively. Investors are more demanding. The “extended enterprise” is growing ever more complicated, and risk events that are difficult to evaluate are becoming more common at the same time. All those dynamics can leave GRC professionals with uneasy feelings about the future. Learn how Read more…
By Shanti Atkins … As we’ve highlighted in our ongoing You Can’t Delegate Ethics campaign, sexual harassment is not a compliance issue, it is an abuse of power issue. It can also be a neglect of power issue. It’s what happens when good people in power standby rather than intervene. Read more…
By Carrie Penman Never has it been more critical to create an open and constructive organisational culture, where employees feel the ability to raise issues freely without fear of recrimination, and to have those issues listened to and appropriately addressed. Historically, employees in regions such as Europe have often been Read more…
By Emily Sandison In the past year, we have seen a salvo of standards and regulations across the globe offering guidance on how to develop effective ethics and compliance programmes. Along with providing guideposts for programme leaders, the volume of standards, and rate at which they are released, has created Read more…
By Randy Stephens Stories of corruption and bribery feel like a staple in the news today, but in-house counsel still has to worry about a lot more than just bad press. Corruption in business, whether internal or through third-party relationships, can pose financial, reputational, operational and compliance risks. Therefore, anti-bribery and Read more…