Around the globe, thousands of compliance staff wrestle daily with the challenge of monitoring, and hopefully shaping employee behaviour. Citi Bank alone claims to have 30,000. Yet there’s an obvious Achilles heel undermining all their efforts—-lack of employee trust. In virtually all ethical scandals, apart from undermining trust at the […]
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Survey: What the C-Suite cares about right now
What is the executive team’s top priority? No prizes for guessing it’s growth, growth and more growth. LRN’s latest report on Ethics and Compliance confirms the C-Suite concern has stayed the same for the last three years—see chart. Boosting profits, cost cutting and innovation stay well ahead of other concerns. Innovation […]
The ultimate excuse: “don’t blame me, blame my boss.”
I only did what everyone else was doing.” Or “my boss told me to do it.” These are the sort of dodgy answers people give when they want to avoid taking any blame for their actions.[spacer height=”20px”] To take an extreme case, the world refused to accept this excuse for […]