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ECI Working Groups are made up of ECI members that collaborate to create white papers on specific issues and topics relevant to our community. The goal of each Working Group is to research, write and share White Papers on the latest trends and issues. If you haven’t seen our library of whitepapers written by our Working Groups yet, don’t miss out. The Whitepaper Library is one of many great assets available to members!

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Partnering with Middle Managers to Enhance Ethics & Compliance Success: Toolkit and Resources

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Headlines about repeated financial scandals rocked the ethics & compliance (E&C) world in the early 2000s and highlighted the importance of top leadership and their role in culture. “Tone at the top” rightly became the foundation of E&C programs. It was clear that without top leadership setting the proper tone...

Addressing Ethics & Compliance Challenges for Multinational Organizations

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Building and implementing an E&C program is a challenging endeavor in organizations of any size. These challenges are compounded in multinational organizations, because E&C program elements must be implemented and sustained across multiple lines of business and/or legal entities. Organizations must contend with multiple governments and regulatory agencies. They must...

A Guide to ESG: What Ethics & Compliance Professionals Need to Know About the Rise in ESG Investing

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Expectations regarding the role of the corporation in society are shifting. As a consequence, many investors and companies are reexamining and adjusting the way they do business. For decades, the nearly unquestioned wisdom, at least in the United States, has been that, as economist Milton Friedman famously declared in 1970,...

HQP Measurement Framework

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In 2016, ECI published the Blue Ribbon Panel report entitled “Principles and Practices of High-Quality Ethics & Compliance Programs” (the “HQP Report”). Since its publication, a number of ECI members have expressed interest in having additional guidance and/or a measurement framework to assist with assessing an ethics and compliance program....

Respectful Workplace

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When considering how to build and support a respectful workplace, it is critical to understand and anticipate the common issues that can undermine that goal. Although disrespectful or uncivil conduct can take many forms, three of the most relevant ones currently are bullying, retaliation and harassment. Considering these issues can...

Hotlines and Investigations

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Fundamentals of workplace and compliance investigations are what matter. Fairness, objectivity, and thoroughness, evenly applied through the continuity of investigative processes across the organization, will ensure reliable and defensible outcomes, while active remediation and consistent discipline flowing from findings protect the organization in the event of a legal challenge. The...

Using Your Organization’s Performance Evaluation System to Drive Ethical Conduct

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Most organizations are better at punishing misconduct than at rewarding ethical conduct.1 Organizations with even basic ethics and compliance (E&C) programs typically have established processes that govern how allegations of misconduct are investigated and how to hold accountable those found to have engaged in misconduct. Fewer organizations, however, have a...

Managing Regulatory Information

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Managing regulatory information is an important task in today?s business world. The timely identification, analysis and dissemination of new/proposed laws, regulations, enforcement actions and other key regulatory information is essential to effective compliance. Yet resource-constrained organizations struggle to efficiently and effectively identify and manage this information. In fact, to do...

Conflicts of Interest: Defining, Preventing, Identifying and Addressing

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Conflicts of Interest (“COIs”) are among the thorniest issues that organizations and ethics and compliance (“E&C”) professionals face. There are a virtually infinite variety of situations that might create a conflict, existing as they do at the intersection of personal, family, financial and organizational interests. Additionally, because appearances are so...