In the recent article: Trust and Integrity: The Values of a Company’s Reputation, Michael Volkov states:
“ A commitment to culture requires time and attention. When senior executives fail to understand the importance of ethics and compliance or balk at resources needed to carry out this function, a company will suffer. There will always be naysayers in every organization, but when they dictate corporate decisions and action, there is a real danger of harm to the company.”
How long is this mindset going to continue? Haven’t we seen enough of this type of attitude in senior execs? Not only does it take time and attention, but what about the training budget? These leaders are putting the money where their mouth is, and that is in nothing, Why you may ask? These types of leaders view compliance and ethics training as an expense to be kept to a minimum, rather than an investment not only in their people but their corporate reputation.
Study after study repeatedly reveals the seemingly lackadaisical attitude many leaders have for compliance and ethics training. I’m not sure why, but it needs to be a continued cause for concern and solution.
Now is the time, now, this week to evaluate your commitment to ethics and compliance as it will get worse before it gets better if leaders don’t step up, invest money, time, and talent to help their people embrace the reality that good ethics is good business.
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Like you, business ethics and ethical leadership expert, Frank Bucaro has seen the challenges and problems of corporate leadership, particularly over the past few years in regards to poor decision-making, SEC violations, and record breaking financial settlements in a number of different industries.
With over two decades of executive training, speaking, writing and with real life experiences, his view and approach to ethics in the workplace is uniquely different. He emphasizes that ethics is a moment-to-moment choice and has little to do with position, titles, personalities or education. Ethics is everybody’s responsibility from the top down.
His goal is to help organizations to:
a. Strengthen their ethics training initiatives in order to significantly decrease the odds of an ethical/compliance violation.
b. Energize, train and motivate employees to understand the value of consistent “high road” behavior as a business advantage.
c. Support individuals and thereby the organization by contributing to its success by quality, ongoing values based leadership development.
Frank is known for his very practical, slightly irreverent, yet somewhat humorous approach to ethics and leadership development. His conversational style and real life stories connect with his audience in a personal, intense and practical level.
Companies such as Bayer Healthcare, BP, ReMax International, EnMax Energy, Danone, etc. have partnered with Frank when they want to proactively stress the message, tools, insights and practical applications that good ethics IS good for business!
