In our compliance discourse, there’s no shortage of debate on whether policies, rules, and procedures, including global laws and regulations, are enough to keep people and teams on the right side of ethical, lawful, and compliant decision-making.
When I read “The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better … or Worse” by Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine, I found myself immediately immersed in this well-researched and thought-out book on how laws, policies, and codes can “fail to improve human conduct.” But “The Behavioral Code” is much more than a deep dive into social research to surface the tension between codes and conduct. The entire book is an exposition on shaping laws and codes to “human and organizational behavior” that should be a foundational part of any compliance library.
