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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. Consider these excerpts from the GAO’s findings: About 85 percent of DODIG reprisal and senior official misconduct investigations exceeded statutory and internal timeliness goals.

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Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe

Harvard Business Review

The dominant response to this state of affairs has been — and still is — to appoint an ever-increasing number of compliance officers. For example, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, said that since 2012 his bank hired an additional 13,000 people to work in the area of compliance. ” But is this the case?

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Research: Whistleblowers Are a Sign of Healthy Companies

Harvard Business Review

Our analysis revealed that whistleblowers—and large numbers of them—are crucial to keeping firms healthy and that functioning internal hotlines are of paramount importance to business goals including profitability. Our conclusions are in many ways counterintuitive to how many executives manage complaints. What this means.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The senior leaders in the study told us that, in contrast to what corporate compliance officers would like us to believe, their organizations’ codes of conduct and ethics training wasn’t particularly helpful when it came to managing ethical dilemmas. When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating. Consult with peers?

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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. They were aware of gender bias in the workplace and used intentional invisibility to limit their exposure to it.

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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. They were aware of gender bias in the workplace and used intentional invisibility to limit their exposure to it.