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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Beyond surveys: Rethinking traditional approaches to ethical culture assessments

To build a robust ethical culture, ethics and compliance professionals need effective culture assessments to pinpoint vulnerabilities and proactively address them. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) update to the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Bank of America’s Corporate Culture Crisis: Part 1 – A Case Study in Failure

Compliance professionals constantly seek to understand how systemic issues within corporate hierarchies can lead to severe consequences. The recent revelations about Bank of America’s (BoA) persistent workplace culture...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Sidestepping Conflicts and Other Ethical Pitfalls in Employee Depositions

This blog post is the fourth in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. Quite often corporate employers want outside counsel to represent both the corporation and...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Is your reporting system worth $1 million?

Answering the question of how much money a compliance and ethics program saves an organization when there’s been a violation is often a very difficult task, which presents a challenge in defending the investment in a program....more

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Empowering ethics: Unleashing compliance program success through psychological safety

Since Harvard Business School’s Amy Edmondson applied the term “psychological safety” to work teams in 1999, the concept has evolved considerably as employers have become increasingly focused on supporting mental health,...more

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The importance of explaining why

Writing, implementing, and enforcing strong compliance-related policies is critical to any compliance and ethics program. So, why do so many compliance failures occur due to breakdowns in internal controls?...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Culture Week: Part 5- A Listening Tour To Improve Culture

We conclude our focus on culture this week by returning to some of our long-time compliance roots for improving culture, such as the listening tour. In 2022, returning Starbucks Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Howard Schultz...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Culture Week: Part 4- Employee Engagement to Improve Culture

Suppose there is one thing I have learned from working with Carsten Tams, an ethical business architect and founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Emagence LLC. In that case, employee engagement is one of the very top...more

FordHarrison

EntertainHR: Leah’s Lawsuit: “Sober Curiosity” and its Impact on Workplace Culture

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Whether you’ve noticed it through the media or in your own circle of friends, it’s no secret that the consumption of alcohol has been losing its popularity, and the idea of being sober or “sober curious” is trendy. Of course,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Role of Leadership in Culture and Course Correcting

When it comes to leadership, many people focus on qualities like decisiveness, communication skills, and strategic thinking. While these traits are undoubtedly important, there is another aspect of leadership that often gets...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

A Shifting Mindset Towards Prevention

I do not think it would be too controversial to say that compliance programs play a crucial role in ensuring that organizations adhere to legal and ethical standards. That is basically what we are all striving to do. However,...more

Ius Laboris

Toolkit for an ethical way forward November 2023

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No longer seen as a mere ‘nice to have’, many employers are now putting major efforts into building an ethical HR practice. In the post-pandemic world, the climate crisis, the attitudes of a new generation of workers and new...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

[Hybrid Event] Bricker Graydon & Friends Ohio Ethics Law Program - December 13th, Columbus, OH

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Bricker Graydon invites our friends who serve public entities, employees and officials to an Ohio Ethics Law update by Susan Willeke of the Ohio Ethics Commission. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees!...more

NAVEX

Managing Internal Risks: Why do Internal Risks Matter?

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Building risk resilience from the inside Why bother looking inward when external risks seem so pressing? The answer is straightforward: you're only as strong as your internal structure....more

Lighthouse

The Power of Employee Resource Groups in Driving DEI and Business Outcomes

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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continues to be a primary concern not just in the eDiscovery industry, but across all sectors. This was...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Categories The Importance of Trust, Accountability, and Ethics in the Workplace

Trust, accountability, and ethics are fundamental pillars of a healthy and successful workplace. They form the foundation upon which organizations build strong relationships with their employees, customers, and stakeholders....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Operationalizing Compliance With 10 Questions for HR

Operationalizing compliance is the crucial step in creating an effective compliance program within an organization. It involves cascading compliance goals to all levels of the organization and fostering a culture of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

HR’s Key to Unveiling the True Ethical Fabric of Organizations

Compliance professionals understand the importance of fully operationalizing compliance and embedding it into the fabric of a business. How can your Human Resources (HR) function help to both create and maintain an ethical...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Incentivizing Compliance

In today’s business landscape, fostering a culture of ethics and compliance is more crucial than ever. It not only ensures legal adherence but also promotes trust, integrity, and long-term success. One powerful tool in...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Key Elements of an Employee Reporting System (Part II of III)

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Corporate leaders know what to say and when to say it – for example, a CEO may state at an employee meeting, “We want to hear your concerns. We want you to bring these concerns forward and we will address them.  We are...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Navigating employee burnout in a new normal: The role of ethics and compliance

Whether or not you believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over, it is essential for employers to realize we are in a new normal that has created change in the workplace and a surge in employee burnout. The American Psychological...more

Ius Laboris

Toolkit for an ethical way forward

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It used to be a ‘nice to have’, but possibly not something employers felt they needed to expend a lot of effort achieving: we are talking here about building an ethical HR practice. But COVID has raised the stakes and made...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Compliance Today - February 2023. Training for the sentinels

I managed not to lose my temper when a training skeptic informed me that he wasn’t a fan of compliance training because “it’s not going to make a dishonest person do the right thing.” Indeed, I doubt anyone who previously had...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Ethics of Hiring Former Government Employees

There’s a common quip in Washington that federal employees leaving their jobs to work in the private sector are “going to the Dark Side.” However, what is not so funny for federal contractors and former executive branch...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Disconnect Between Human Resources and Compliance

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We can all remember those instances of matchmaking in our past — we were confident our friends, if they met each other, would fall in love and even get married.  We believed that these two separate friends were “meant” for...more

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