Why do employees break the rules? These tips can lead to policies and procedures that help curb rule breaking.
Joel Katz
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Making Compliance Training Stick
Reasonable minds can differ when it comes to identifying the ultimate goal of compliance training or what it means for compliance training to be effective, and they often do. Traditionally, compliance training has been designed in a somewhat academic manner—thorough coverage of a particular topic, perhaps with a few examples along the way, and then […]
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How to Convince Employees Abroad of the Importance of Compliance
On more than one occasion I have had someone tell me that Americans are a bit crazy about compliance. This statement is usually followed by an explanation that, while the employee understands what the company expects of him, compliance is really just an “American” thing—that local employees of an overseas unit don’t worry about compliance […]
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Creating a Speak-Up Culture
An important gauge of the success of any company’s compliance training and communications program is whether the company’s efforts have created an environment where employees readily raise questions and concerns about the way the company is conducting business. Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, much has been written about the different avenues […]
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Putting Together an Action Plan for Compliance Training
Companies need to have a plan when they begin the process of creating or revising a compliance training and communication program. But what does that really mean and how do companies go about building or revising such a plan? The answer to these questions will likely be company specific, but let me offer a few […]
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Eight Ways to Improve Compliance Communication and Training
The beginning of fall marks many things in the lives of Americans— shorter days, kids going back to school, a chill in the evening air, and renewed worries about hurricanes, at least for those of us living along the Gulf Coast or Eastern seaboard, as their prevalence increases in September and October. It was […]
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It’s All About Perspective
I once heard a federal judge share his views about the importance of attorneys ensuring that they provide jurors with appropriate perspective when building their cases during trial. According to this judge, the most common mistake trial lawyers make is that they fail to put themselves in the shoes of jurors and explain things in […]
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The Importance of Building an Effective Compliance Training Program
When I was 13 years old, I was picked up by the police at 3 a.m. for violating our town’s curfew for kids under the age of 16. (Before you leap to conclusions about how poorly my parents must have been raising me, I will add that I was “camping out” with some friends in […]
