Companies should consider the benefits of “being kind” to promote employee well-being and a better culture of compliance.

Giving a keynote speech at Compliance Week Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland, last month, author David Hamilton told attendees kindness can be a very powerful and effective way of improving corporate behavior and workplace productivity.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...