"The Returns of Effective Compliance for Large Companies"

3/31/15: It’s common knowledge – isn’t it? – that effective compliance reduces employee misconduct. A recent study by the Ethics Research Center (ERC) does more than rattle off common knowledge: it shows that effective ethics and compliance programs dramatically reduce employee misconduct and improve “every key measure...of workplace behavior” at large companies. According to the study, “On average, large companies (90,000 or more employees) with effective programs face half of the rules violations as those without effective programs.” A release from ERC provides a link to the free, though limited, executive summary and a link to the full report “The State of Ethics in Large Companies”.