Compliance Communications Blog

 

The First Step Toward FCPA Compliance: Stop FCPA Training Employees

OK, don’t flip out. I don’t mean that the way it sounds; I just said it that way so you’d read my blog which you’re doing. So you have to admit that it worked.

But, in another sense, I mean it quite literally. Here’s why: the other day, I saw yet another basic training presentation about the FCPA designed to educate employees about bribery. The presentation included the following sorts of facts:

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"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...

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"What Role Does Business Play in Fighting Corruption?"

 

3/18/15: The first answer to that question is inevitably that companies can prevent and detect corruption within their own organizations, educate their employees and third party partners, and reinforce an ethical corporate culture through a strong and effective communication program.  But, participants at the...

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"There's More to Fighting Corruption Than Compliance"

2/24/2015: “Everyone is against corruption,” begins Michael Volkov in a post on the Corruption, Crime & Compliance blog. From that starting point, Volkov pokes a stick in the side of the business community, putting it on notice that fighting corruption takes more than their individual compliance with anti-corruption laws.  What else?...

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"Leadership and Emotional Intelligence"


2/9/2015: In a post on the FCPA blog Troy Carlton writes, “Many business organizations today, despite decades of research and findings to the contrary, don’t understand the benefits of emotional intelligence (the soft skills). They don't get it that when leaders connect better with employees, and employees connect better with...

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