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Conduct a Full ERC Survey

As an alternative to licensing the seven core questions, ECOA members can participate in the benchmarking initiative by implementing a full survey. A full survey allows your organization to compare itself to ECOA peers, while providing a more in-depth assessment of your ethics and compliance program and ethical culture. The survey uses the following sets of indicators:

• Formal Program Elements – As identified by the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations;
• Risk – Exposure to situations that invite violation of an organization’s standards or the law;
• Ethical Culture – Indicators of the extent to which members of the organization embody and conduct business according to the standards of the organization, and the nature of pressure to commit misconduct; and,
• Program Outcomes – Measures of the extent to which a program is achieving its intended objectives and is promoting ethical conduct overall.

To conduct a full survey, your organization must enter into an independent agreement with ERC. The average life cycle of a survey project is approximately 4 months, from planning until delivery of the survey report.

Fees

ECOA members are eligible for preferred rates for ERC's surveys. The discounted base price is $25,600 and includes the following services:

• One-time use of ERC's standard question set in English;
• Modification of the survey instrument, including the option to add a limited number of company-specific questions;
• Unlimited sampling of employees to participate in the survey;
• Online hosting of the survey by ERC;
• Data analysis; and,
• One organization-wide report.

Additional services are available at an extra cost:

• Access to the survey data and benchmarks on the online portal
• Paper surveys
• Language translation
• Additional reports (findings broken down by a demographic category)
• Executive Briefing