Believe it or not, there’s a compliance lesson to be learned by the methods of the Houston Astros in their rise from the worst team in baseball to World Series champions.
Ethics & Culture
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Ethics training in the #MeToo era
NAVEX Global’s 2018 Ethics & Compliance Training Benchmark Report shows how the #MeToo movement has altered the ethics and compliance landscape in drastic ways.
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Corporate activism from the CECO perspective
CEOs and boards of directors have been hailed for their responsiveness to a spate of recent scandals, but one prominent compliance executive argues there’s another critical voice behind these decisions: the chief ethics and compliance officer.
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Why HR compliance is critical to creating trust
The recent departure of Uber’s head of human resources suggests the company’s new speak-up cultural might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
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Will new Mexican president make good on anti-corruption promises?
Business leaders and the compliance community anxiously wait to see if newly elected Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador will make good on his pledge to fight corruption.
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French probing LafargeHolcim for violations in Syria
LafargeHolcim’s French unit has been placed under formal investigation over allegations the cement maker was “complicit in crimes against humanity” in Syria after admitting to paying funds to ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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NAVEX Global offers free sexual harassment prevention training
Ethics and compliance software and services firm NAVEX Global now offers a free online awareness and training video series designed to help organizations focus on preventing sexual harassment and effecting positive changes in workplace culture.
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French telecom execs face trial for moral harassment
Former executives of French telecom firm Orange have been charged under the country’s “moral harassment” law for encouraging an extremely high-pressure business environment, which reportedly led to more than 30 employee suicides.
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SEC’s Clayton digs into the basics of company culture
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton used a speaking engagement this week to champion the need to establish a firm-wide culture of compliance.
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Mergers and corporate culture
Big mergers are in the news, with the union of telecom giant AT&T and vast multimedia firm Time Warner and Comcast’s $65 billion bid for 21st Century Fox being just two examples. With the recent Justice Department emphasis on corporate culture, it will be interesting to see what this season of merger mania means to compliance and culture.