Finding useful metrics to measure corporate culture is not always an easy task for ethics and compliance officers—but once unearthed, such data can be a gold mine for an ethics and compliance program.

Without metrics, chief ethics and compliance officers have no way to gauge the effectiveness of corporate culture. A single metric by itself has limited value until it can be correlated with other metrics to provide actionable context; something that helps to facilitate insight and decision-making.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...