ERC Fellows Working Groups
This group will investigate how ethics and compliance programs should integrate social networking technologies in an effort to positively influence ethical culture and behavior, as well as investigate the dynamics of existing social networks in the workplace, and how they might be utilized to enhance ethics & compliance programs.
International Culture Integration
This working group is working towards the goal of researching, authoring, and distributing multiple reports on the cultural, behavorial, and regulatory challenges that face companies attempting to implement ethics & compliance programs overseas. This group's reports will be nation or region-specific and aim to provide ethics officers with an overview of what to expect when working in the subject nation or region.
Fellows Work Product Re-Packaging
This group will review the archives of the ERC Fellows Program and identify past working group deliverables that should be repackaged and reproduced. These deliverables will be analyzed and updated as necessary, then made available to the Fellows in their repackaged form.
The Procedural Justice group is currently conducting a study of complaint management procedures, through a survey given to employees who use their company's hotline to file a complaint.
For an in-depth look at the ERC Fellows Program and its accomplishments over the last decade, you can review the 10th Anniversary Publication: Transforming Organizational Culture Through the Knowledge and Practice of Ethics.
ERC Fellows Vice Chair
Steve Prosser joined Starbucks Coffee Company in 2001 as the manager of Corporate Compliance and has for the last four years served as Starbucks director of Business Ethics and Compliance. Previous to joining Starbucks, Steve was a member of the ethics and compliance team at Verizon Communications, Inc.
The vice chair is responsible for ensuring that the ERC Fellows research and meeting agendas maintain the highest standards of excellence and explore topics relevant to chief ethics and compliance officers, general counsels and other senior executives. Steve joined the Fellows program in 2006 and succeeds Charles Ruthford of The Boeing Company.
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