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I re-read Roy Snell’s article titled Compliance Officer’s Nine Lives. He commented that compliance officers must master some elements of 9 professions to be successful. They are Legal, Ethics, Risk, Audit, Investigations, Education, Organizational Development, Operations, and Communications. He goes on to say that the reason compliance programs are successful, is because compliance professionals…
Part 2 has to deal with the ROI, return on investment. I have found very few organizations that use the term “investment” with any type of ethics training. For most, ethics training is a cost, a line item. When the term “cost” is used, one needs to think about the motivation and reason of…
Ethics training is not just a nicety that looks good to everyone else! It’s a necessity if you want to decrease the odds of ethical problems before they become a potentially expensive legal problem, a public relations nightmare or a trauma to employee morale. How much would you invest to preserve your company’s reputation, growth…
I recently received a heart wrenching response to a recent ethics post of mine to my Linkedin in groups. Thought I’d share a few of excerpts of this response for your ethical reflection. “I was a whistleblower up against one of the biggest sharks out there. I’m still in the process of writing a…
In the recent study released last week, titled: In Focus: Compliance Trends Survey 2013 from Deloitte and Compliance Week, there were some interesting findings. For example: • 62% outsource ethics hotline operations. • 32% outsource training. • 18% outsource investigations. My question is, when, how and why are all these outsourced processes brought back “in…
Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences!
Robert Louis Stevenson
Consequences are either good or bad. Which do you have more of?
