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Employees Don’t Trust Anti-Retaliation Statutes

HR Digest

Corporate compliance officers already know that violation of anti-retaliation statues is an unjustifiable risk. The magnitude of this significant problem is outlined in ECI’s Global Business Ethics Survey. Even worse, employees typically don’t report retaliation via internal hotlines.

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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.” While the benefits are clearly far-reaching and potentially game changing, there are ethical questions to consider. Potter Stewart, justice of the U.S. Which employees are likely to quit?

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

External standards can also be a powerful tool in support of those efforts, helping companies strengthen ethics and compliance practices by offering a clear framework for action. And consumers are placing a higher and higher value on whether a company has ethical practices, too.

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Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe

Harvard Business Review

These examples make clear that companies often do not know what’s going on in their own offices, which can severely damage their reputation. The dominant response to this state of affairs has been — and still is — to appoint an ever-increasing number of compliance officers.

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Research: Whistleblowers Are a Sign of Healthy Companies

Harvard Business Review

In our discussions with compliance officers at firms, many executive leadership teams stated a “goal” to have zero reports. We found that in addition to reduced legal exposure, firms that more actively use their internal reporting systems are typically more profitable and have been in business longer. What this means.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

For example, Sharon (all names have been changed), an administrator in a compliance office, recounted an interaction with a male colleague. ” Rather than aspire to executive norms associated with masculinity, these women focused on the ethical and economic advantages of behind-the-scenes work. Parenthood Pressures.