In the event you don’t already have a robust and meaningful set of compliance and ethics KPIs at your company, Jim Nortz offers a couple of things you might consider doing to remedy the situation:
According to WeFollow.com, the CCI Twitter account (cci_compliance) is ranked #2 for the terms “compliance” and “governance” in terms of overall influence. Additionally, CCI’s Twitter account is ranked #4 for the term “ethics”.
This interview between CCI founder Maurice Gilbert and Jeff Kaplan, a frequent CCI contributor and partner at Kaplan & Walker, looks at how compliance and ethics program assessments are designed, and what some methods are for making them as effective as possible.
New featured article by Luis Ramos, Chief Executive Officer for The Network. As with many situations of adversity, the current economic downturn presents an opportunity for a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to strengthen their company’s ethics and compliance programs.
The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has announced the recipients of its 5th Annual Compliance and Ethics Awards and CCI contributor Jeff Kaplan is among them, along with Michael Hoffman, Debbie Troklus, John Steer, the FBI and the Hamline University Law School.
DynCorp International, a major government security contractor, is strengthening its ethics practices in the wake of government investigations of its programs in Afghanistan and other conflict zones.
By Joan Dubinsky and Alan Richter
This featured article is a special CCI presentation of an outstanding ethics and integrity tool produced by Joan Dubinsky and Alan Richter entitled Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmarks. Together, Joan Dubinsky and Alan Richter have put together a detailed, organized, insightful, and groundbreaking ethics and integrity tool designed to help organizations “assess and measure their progress in making a formal and transparent commitment to ethics and integrity in the workplace.”
The Practising Law Institute is hosting four Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute seminars between the months of March and July. They are geared towards benefiting anyone in the substantive or procedural aspects of corporate compliance and ethics. Click through to find out the schedule, topics, and other relevant information about the PLI seminars.
By Joan Dubinsky, Chief Ethics Officer for the International Monetary Fund
Once you have tackled the questions posed in Code Redux Part One, proceed to Part Two. Here, you will find a set of recommended steps—from vision to publication. This article details a suggested process you can use to revise your Code of Conduct. Following these steps will result in a Code of Conduct that is better than good, and often quite great.
By Joan Dubinsky, Chief Ethics Officer for the International Monetary Fund
Many organizations have a document that they call their Code of Conduct. Along the way, it may have acquired several other names or titles.
Though the titles may not be standardized, one aspect universally holds true. Once a Code of Conduct is finally written, approved, published, and distributed, no one wants to revise it. This article examines why the revision process is so dauntingly difficult, and suggests ways to simplify your approach.
