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The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics
Business, Finance, Risk, Information Management
Edition: 1 Date: 03/08/2019 Price: £36.99 ISBN Paperback: 9780749482978 ISBN Ebook: 9780749482985 Pages: 376 Format (mm): 234x157 Product Category: Professional Subject: Corporate Governance,
Ethics & CSR
Author Information
Andrew Hayward is a lawyer with more than a dozen years’ experience of compliance roles across sectors. Having previously worked for AstraZeneca and Balfour Beatty, he is now Head of Compliance and Ethics at Subsea 7, an engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy industry. He worked with the British Standards Institute to develop the first anti-bribery standard (BS10500) and was part of the UK delegation on the development of the International AntiBribery Standard (BS ISO 37001:2016).
Tony Osborn is an award-winning writer, creative consultant and content developer. He has worked with leading global corporations to help them find and tell their stories and connect with stakeholders. He helped shape and write Serco’s online and printed Code of Conduct, and, with Andrew Hayward, the award-winning Balfour Beatty Code of Conduct. « Discusses compliance in broader terms than other books in the market, considering social, psychological, global and cultural factors in order to better understand how to collaborate, communicate and engage others in the organization « Provides precision, but also allows non-specialist readers to access the information provided, including expertise on the typical traps to be aware of, policy and process and how to develop an ethics and compliance strategy « Provides an ideal self-development toolkit that readers can access on a day-to-day basis, offering a clear, simple route to quickly find and apply expertise « Gives professionals clear guidance to key issues, using accessible language and cutting through jargon to define ethics and compliance and offer practical advice and ideas « Uses storytelling and scenarios to help readers apply theory to real-life situations, bringing issues to life in the human, social and political contexts relevant to the workplace
Description
Across the world, organizations continue to be damaged and brought down by systemic noncompliance or the misdeeds of a few, and newspapers abound with examples of corporate and NGO scandals and crimes. This is despite the increasing ethical demands stakeholders are making of business, the exposing power of social media, the proliferating requirements of compliance laws and regulations, and the burgeoning numbers of policies, procedures and compliance officers that have been put in place in response. So why isn’t compliance working? The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics examines how rules-based, tick-box, defensible compliance continues to fail, and lays out a new approach for organizations seeking to flourish and succeed.
Written for any organization and businesses, this book provides clear, thorough and practical guidance for practitioners and decision-makers. It explains in layman’s terms the skills, tools and mindset needed to develop and deliver a best practice compliance and ethics programme - one that meets the requirements made by law, stakeholders and society, and protects your organization from risk of fines, penalties and reputational damage. But this is also a book for all those interested in how to build employee engagement and motivation. The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics demonstrates the value - including competitive advantage, career satisfaction, employee and customer loyalty, and brand enhancement - that a truly effective compliance and ethics programme can bring, when it works hand in hand with a values-based culture of shared ownership.
Table of Contents
1 Why compliance isn’t working 2 The meaning, origins and role of compliance and ethics 3 Barriers to success 4 Looking for answers 5 The anatomy of a compliance and ethics programme 6 Top-level commitment 7 Risk assessment and due diligence 8 Code of conduct and policies 9 Communication, education and training 10 Whistle-blowing hotline and speak-up culture 11 Procedures and controls 12 Investigations, remediation and enforcement 13 Assurance and continuous improvement 14 Implementation – The compliance and ethics function – and everyone else
