2021 ECI Working Group Today’s business environment continues to be fast-paced and driven by the exponentially increasing speed of information. That, along with evolving technology, remote work and other factors, has created a constant state of change for almost all of us. Often, change is more sweeping and includes organizational
E&C programs face unprecedented challenges in today’s business environment. One way to meet those challenges is to borrow powerful innovation tools and strategies that have been used to develop blockbusting products and services that we see and use in the marketplace every day. This best practice forum will introduce a
The EU Whistleblower Protection Directive is now in force for companies that do business in any of the 27 EU Member States. In this webinar, you’ll learn what the Directive means for your business, requirements for specific Member States, and how to evaluate, implement, and evolve your helpline as your
Over the last 100 years, ECI has helped build and shape the ethics and compliance field. ECI was instrumental in developing the first codes of conduct and ethics offices for critical US government agencies and leading corporations. It led the way in making the case that integrity outcomes are just as important as financial outcomes and that they are essential to the long-term viability of our capital markets. More than just establishing a function, ECI recognized E&C as a profession with a knowledge base of its own, it then worked with key figures in government and business to define the role and the domain of the chief ethics and compliance officer and to articulate and measure program effectiveness. ECI always has been at the forefront, offering new insights and defining best practice.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publishes guidelines for organizations operating in the U.S. upon which corporate compliance programs are measured and against which organizations should be investigated for wrongdoing. The findings discussed in this summary are based on ECI’s Corporate Compliance Program and DOJ Enforcement Policies Survey (“survey”) which was designed to obtain ethics & compliance leaders’ opinions about the DOJ’s enforcement guidelines and their intersection with corporate compliance programs. ECI surveyed chief ethics & compliance officers, chief compliance officers and chief ethics officers or their equivalents (ethics & compliance leaders). A key objective was to gather information that would help provide guidance to organizations and DOJ on actions that would improve compliance and enforcement efforts. Each section of this summary report discusses key findings on the guidance documents and other pertinent content from the survey. When reading this report, please keep in mind that the survey was conducted prior to the October 28, 2021 DOJ memorandum making revisions to the department’s existing corporate criminal enforcement policies and practices. DOJ will consider an organization’s entire criminal history, require that organizations provide information on “all persons involved in corporate misconduct,” and commit to imposing monitors where appropriate.
EBEF brings together E&C professionals to share practices and experiences as well as explore challenges that are raised in doing business ethically around the globe.
Over the past several years the Department of Justice has periodically issued material updates to guidelines related to compliance programs and enforcement. The ECI recently conducted an important and timely survey of ethics & compliance officers as to how they are interpreting and applying DOJ’s guidance. Join thought and
Maturity Levels of E&C Programs: High-Quality Programs (HQPs) Help Organizations Create Stronger Cultures and Can Boost Integrity by 546% In our previous posts about high-quality ethics & compliance programs (HQPs), we explored in detail how the Department of Justice evaluates corporate compliance programs, as well as the groundwork for creating
Contributed by Kristy Grant-Hart, founder and CEO of Spark Compliance; Kirsten Liston, founder and principal of Rethink Compliance; and Joe Murphy, the Godfather of Compliance So many people dream of being their own boss. They want to choose their own hours, pick the projects they want to work on and