For years—essentially since the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines were first enacted in 1991—companies have been left pretty much to their own devices to figure out how to develop effective ethics and compliance programs that live up to (or go beyond) what the Sentencing Guidelines require. In their original incarnation (from 1991 to 2004), the compliance provisions […]
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Posted inEthics & Culture
Eight Essentials for a Global Code of Conduct
With corporate scandals continuing unabated and hitting the headlines daily (the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis, Siemens’ bribery probe, Societe Generale’s rogue trader, to name a few), more and more organizations—whether corporate, non-profit, academic, or governmental—are adopting global codes of conduct for their employees, executives, agents, partners, and vendors. And these global codes are not necessarily […]
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Building Ethics, Compliance Risks Into ERM
In today’s world of daily and instantaneously communicated risks, crises and scandals related to ethics and compliance—or what we call “E&C” risks—it is no longer simply desirable for companies to have an E&C risk-management program: It is a business necessity. Indeed, it is increasingly crucial to have an E&C risk-management system that is integrated with […]