The ethics and compliance program should not primarily be designed for the benefit of the company. Try telling that to your C-suite and see how much resource support you get.

However, consider the ethics and compliance program primarily be designed for the benefit of employees, and your company might find the payoff to be greater than that of a program that puts the business first.

This notion is at the core of Adam Balfour’s book, “Ethics & Compliance for Humans.” Balfour, vice president and general counsel for corporate compliance at Bridgestone Americas, writes not only of his experiences learned on the job but also his personal perspectives as someone who, in his words, is “on a mission to make ethics and compliance more relatable and relevant for his fellow human beings.”

“What I have learned over the years is that an ethics and compliance program is not about complying with