Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Training Managers to be Compliance and Ethics “Risk Sentinels”


What does it mean for a manager to be ethical? At a minimum, of course, he or she must obey relevant laws and other standards of conduct herself, but in an age of maximum consequences for violations presumably the minimum in ethicality is only the starting point. Organizations seeking to minimize risks of this kind should also expect – and train – managers to have a heightened degree of ethical awareness, so that (among other reasons) they can be “sentinels” in spotting C&E risks.

Training managers to be effective risk sentinels has several aspects to it. One focuses on key C&E risk areas. By way of example, for confidential information one might:

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