Elsewhere on our website this week you can find an excellent article on the policy management questions about that most difficult of policies a compliance officer has to manage: business travel. If you’re looking for a good overview of the latest risks a travel policy should address, and how to impose one, give it a read.
Here, however, I want to approach business travel from a different angle—because I can’t cite a better example of how companies try to implement a well-meaning policy and poison their culture along the way. Business travel is the perfect case-study of the limits of policy management butting up against the desire for a strong corporate culture.
