All Ethics & Culture articles – Page 55
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ArticleEllen Hunt: The accidental expert
Bill Coffin talks with Ellen Hunt, chief ethics and compliance officer at the AARP, recently chosen as one of 12 compliance experts and featured in Compliance Week’s exclusive Top Minds edition.
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BlogA roadmap toward executive-level gender diversity in the U.K.
The United Kingdom’s struggle for executive-level gender diversity continues, especially in the financial services sector, where only 23 percent of board directors and only 14 percent of executive committee members are female. The Women in Finance Charter offers a roadmap for how to address this, with a stern warning: Organizations ...
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Blog100 largest companies’ human rights to be ranked
When it comes to taking a stand for various human rights—including health & safety, land rights, water & sanitation, and women’s rights—there are 100 companies that stand out for standing up and doing the right thing, according to the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark. Paul Hodgson has more.
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WADA and its non-response to whistleblowing
What are the implications of an entity not responding to allegations, which come to its attention through a whistleblower? In the FCPA world, such corporate behavior can lead to significant legal and financial consequences. The Man From FCPA was therefore intriged by recent reports that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ...
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New report: promoting workplace integrity globally
Ethics and compliance officers seeking more guidance on how to achieve and promote workplace integrity—doing what’s right in a professional context—now have a new, first-of-its-kind benchmark report at their fingertips. Jaclyn Jaeger offers a look at this Ethics & Compliance Initiative study.
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CW2016: Putting compliance into practice
Yes, yes—companies everywhere know that having in place an effective compliance program is more important today than ever before, but how are compliance officers actually achieving that? Jaclyn Jaeger recaps this discussion from Compliance Week 2016.
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BlogFrench nay on pay-cut
The controversy over Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn’s (pictured above) 2015 €7.2 million remuneration likely sparked revisions to France’s rules on compensation—including making say-on-pay mandatory and strengthening transparency rules. But so far, says Global Glimpses writer Paul Hodgson, Renault has no plans to change Ghosn’s compensation.
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New gold standard for ethics and compliance programs
A first-of-its-kind report issued by the Ethics and Compliance Initiative aims to to provide ethics and compliance officers with a new gold standard for which to develop a high-quality ethics and compliance program. Jaclyn Jaeger looks at five core principles identified in the report.
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Experts talk on boosting hotline effectiveness
A recent hotline analysis from NAVEX Global has identified ways in which companies could improve their helpline programs, including shortening the median case closure time. Karen Kroll provides an in-depth look at the results.
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In Brazil, accountability has to start somewhere
The effort to unseat embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is receiving criticism because it is really an effort by her even more corrupt rivals to grab power. While that may be correct, does it matter, asks Editor Bill Coffin. Or is it just a handy excuse for giving Rousseff and ...
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What does the controversial pay raise for BP’s CEO mean for compliance?
Image: What are the implications of CEO pay during an economic downturn for your compliance program? In this piece, the Man From FCPA Tom Fox explores that question in the context of BP’s recent pay raise given to Bob Dudley, who, as CEO, laid off thousands of employees and saw ...
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e-Book: Ensuring confidence in your ethics training program
Most compliance and ethics officers are fairly confident about the content of their ethics training programs. It's delivering it in a way that keeps employees engaged that can be the hard part. In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with NYSE and Second City, we try to cut ...
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The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: GRC for Conflict of Interest Management
FACT: Employee conflicts of interest (COIs) are observed often, but reported rarely. COIs are the third most commonly observed type of misconduct, according to the 2013 National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), but only 49 percent of workers who observe COI misconduct are reporting what they see.FACT: Companies aren’t effectively managing ...
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Harmonizing corporate disclosure on climate change by making the most of your CDP response
Linking corporate sustainability and good business results is a big part of driving companies to adopt more environmentally responsible outlooks and operational strategies. But there is more than one way to determine that link, and harmonizing the results between various methodologies is key for creating the best kind of sustainability ...
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German World Cup bid now under FIFA scrutiny
The ongoing FIFA corruption scandal takes on new life as some of the top names in German soccer, as well as sports apparel manufacturer Adidas, appear to be implicated in the 2006 World Cup bid. CW’s Tom Fox reports on this latest ethics investigation.
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Living in glass houses can be a good thing
A recent visit by CW Editor Bill Coffin to a building with no solid walls, and a chance encounter with one of the world’s wealthiest people offered a compelling case for the pursuit of transparency in both the literal and figurative sense.
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The cost of integrity
Image: At the Global Ethics Summit, GE General Counsel and SVP Alex Dimitrief talked about what it means to promote a culture of integrity and the true costs of ethical lapses. When a business goes astray, it’s not a call for added workflows or approvals, he said. It’s a sign ...
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Volkswagen: A lesson in implicit versus explicit rules and regulations
As uncertainty swirls around what Volkswagen executives knew or did not know about the company’s emissions cheating, this much seems certain: To achieve accountability going forward, Volkswagen executives must commit to creating a corporate culture in which employees and executives follow the same codes of conduct. Inside, guest columnist JTI ...
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Winter is coming
It is easy to see data that is slightly off and to accept it, but what happens when you start accepting data that deviates from your deviation? It sounds crazy, but it happens all the time. Perhaps one of the best ways to combat this kind of creeping non-compliance is ...
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5 Key Things Your “Policies Policy” Must Have
Your policies and procedures tell your employees, partners, customers, and vendors how you operate–from the offers you price, to the credit you extend, from the trades you conduct to the parties you hire.With so much at stake, and all of it within a fluid context of changing regulations and expectations, ...