Day: March 19, 2021

ECI 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey: Episode 5 – Conclusions and Recommendations

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Over this special five-part podcast series, I have visited with Dr. Pat Harned, President of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), about the organization’s 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES). Since 1994, ECI has conducted this cross-sectional study of workplace conduct from the employee’s perspective. ECI’s GBES data provides the only global benchmark on the state of ethics and compliance (E&C) in business. This year’s GBES is the first compliance related survey conducted after the global pandemic hit. It has significant information for the compliance professional which they need to consider for every compliance program, literally on a world-wide basis.
While a multitude of factors inﬂuence ethical behavior, the GBES reports interplay of four major ethics outcomes are tied to the daily decisions employees make with respect to how they behave in the workplace. These are: pressure in the workplace to compromise ethical standards; observations of misconduct; reporting misconduct; and, ultimately, the retaliation perceived by employees after they reported misconduct. Some of this year’s findings are quite troubling as they are clearly trending in disturbing directions. Over this series we reviewed the key findings, saw how retaliation against whistleblowers has taken an alarming upturn, noted the impact of Covid-19 on culture. Today we close with some conclusions and recommendations.
To obtain a copy of the Survey, click here. To find out more about ECI, click here.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 244 – the March Madness edition

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As March Madness descends upon us in the bubble this year, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA.
Stories

Retaliation against whistleblowers on the rise. Tom interviews Pat Harned on the FCPA Compliance Report.
Novaris announces a new ABC compliance program. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
Expect closer cooperation between DOJ and SFO. Neil Hodge in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
Developments in state of New York antitrust law. WilmerHale lawyers in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
NatWest facing criminal charges in UK over money-laundering. Mengqi Sun in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
Due Diligence and SCRM. Matt Kelly in Navex Global’s Risk and Compliance Matters Blog.
Braskem investigates bribery of Pemex official in Mexico. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
Here be the Dragon for Internal Audit. Ali Noor in XpertsLeague.
Continuous monitoring through continuous auditing. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud.
What do BODs and senior execs see as the top risks for 2021. Jim Deloach in CCI. Charles Mitchell in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corp Governance.

Podcasts and Events

On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March. In the first episode, In Episode 1, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. In Episode 2, Rob moves cross country to join eBay. In Episode 3, Rob talks about moving into the Chief Ethics Officer role at Airbnb.
Microsoft has joined the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks. In Episode 3 of Voices of Data Protection, Bhavanesh Rengarajan discusses the value of information governance. In Episode 3 of Uncovering Hidden Risks, Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir consider using HR data to uncover insider risk.
Check out some hoops and ethics in the 2021 Ethics Madness during the first day of March Information and registration here.
In a special five-part podcast series, I visited with Pat Harned, President of Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), about the organization’s 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey. In Episode 1, we review some of the key trends. In Episode 2, we review the key findings. In this Episode 3, we take up the most troubling finding in the GBES; that being the huge uptick in retaliation. In Episode 4, we consider the impact of Covid-19 on compliance. We conclude with Episode 5 on Conclusions and Recommendations. Full series available on iTunes here.
Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2^nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2^ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.