To assure that your company’s employees act ethically in their dealings with government, David Samford of Frost Brown Todd believes you need to make sure they know the agencies’ ethics.
A recently issued memorandum by the Kaplan & Walker team discusses why the recently issued OECD Good Practice Guidance for Anti-Bribery Compliance Programs “seems destined to become the most significant set of C&E standards yet promulgated, at least for global companies.”
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.
