Posts Tagged ‘internal reporting’
Lessons From Whistleblower Award
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a $37 million whistleblower award last week, and before the case fades from memory compliance officers should give it a close look; the details offer a useful glimpse into the importance of getting internal reporting systems right. The award was handed out on July 26, and as usual we…
Read MoreThe Latest on Internal Reporting Stats
Navex has released its 2023 benchmark report on internal reporting programs, with reporting rates rising to an all-time high — but also some intriguing findings about a jump in the number of anonymous reports and the importance of offering multiple reporting channels to employees. The report came out last week, crunching the data on more…
Read MoreFDA’s Lessons on Internal Reporting
Aside from all the FCPA news that’s been happening lately, compliance officers also have a cautionary tale to consider this week about internal reporting. We have the fiasco of the Food & Drug Administration and a whistleblower trying to raise alarms about poor conditions at Abbott Nutrition’s infant formula manufacturing plant in Michigan. The Washington…
Read MoreMore on the Challenges of Listen-Up Culture
Today we have a disturbing lesson on ethics and compliance from New Hampshire, where police are frantically searching for a seven-year-old girl who apparently has been missing since 2019 — because nobody took the girl’s drug-addled mother seriously while she tried to raise alarms about her daughter for months. The girl is Harmony Montgomery. She…
Read MoreGloomy Stats on Workplace Misconduct
Another week, another report trying to quantify the breadth and cost of workplace misconduct. This one comes from Vault Platform, an internal reporting startup; and the rather gloomy headline here is that roughly half of all office workers in Britain and the United States have experienced some form of misconduct during their careers. Vault released…
Read MoreWhat Makes Incident Management Tick
Last week I had the good fortune to moderate a webinar on incident management programs, and I have to admit — by the end of the hour, I had a much more nuanced appreciation for the things that make an incident management program succeed. Usually when I think about incident management, my mind immediately goes…
Read MoreReport: Hotline Cases Taking More Time
News for all internal reporting and compliance hotline enthusiasts: companies are now taking more time to close cases that come through the internal hotline, and a surge in workplace harassment complaints after the birth of the #MeToo movement may be receding. So says the latest hotline benchmarking report from Navex Global, which reported its findings…
Read MoreCall for U.S. Olympics CCO
A special commission reviewing the sorry state of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has published its final report, calling for the appointment of a chief compliance officer and sweeping reforms to the Olympic Committee’s corporate culture. Known as the Borders Commission, the group was established last year to review how the USOPC mishandled the…
Read MoreNotes on Managers & Internal Reporting
Ethisphere has released its latest study of ethics and compliance best practices, this time exploring the crucial role that managers play in supporting a strong culture of ethics and internal reporting. Compliance professionals should give the report a read because, as usual, these best practice studies give you a lot to think about. This report…
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