JUST RELEASED
ECI’s NEW development resource identifies the key metrics that ethics officers can use to measure the quality of their ethics & compliance programs. The HQP Measurement Framework gives organizations of all sizes a program maturity model to determine the progress of programs against an established standard of success.
Gauge the progress of your programs against this benchmark.
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With more and more organizations committing to higher quality programs, it begs the question: does it make a difference when a company dedicates more resources and heightens the priority of their E&C efforts?
To find an answer, we asked employees about the presence of an E&C program in their workplace. We also inquired about the quality of that program, if it existed.
Corporate ethics and compliance (E&C) programs are playing an increasingly important role in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) civil and criminal enforcement policies. This role reflects DOJ’s growing recognition that effective E&C programs can benefit companies, their stakeholders, and the public through the prevention, early detection, and resolution of misconduct.
View ECI’s Recommendations.
Prepared by a Blue Ribbon Panel of prominent ethics and compliance practitioners, academics, white collar and whistleblower attorneys, as well as former enforcement officials. The HQP report provides detail about organizations with ethics and compliance programs that go beyond the minimum standard.
This 2016 report introduced the Five Principles of HQP for E&C program development and review.