The State of Ethics & Compliance In the Workplace: U.S. Trends ECI recently released a Global Business Ethics Survey® (GBES®) report on U.S. trends. The report is focused on data that ECI collected in 2013, 2017, 2020, and 2023 from employees working in the U.S. in publicly and privately
Is Uncertainty and Change Leading to Misconduct in Your Organization? According to ECI Research, during significant shifts within an organization, employees face over twice the pressure to compromise on rules, leading to a dramatic surge in observed misconduct. 3 Reasons to Conduct A Culture Survey This Year 1. You
ECI Announces Publication of the Global Business Ethics Survey® U.S. Trends Report on the State of Ethics & Compliance in the Workplace When employees perceive a weak ethical culture in their organization, they are four times more likely to feel pressure to compromise standards than employees who perceive a
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ECI & RILA Partner to Advance Leading Retailers Ethics & Compliance Programs WASHINGTON, DC—May 24, 2024 – Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), the premier membership association empowering organizations to operate with integrity and maintain a robust ethics and compliance (E&C) programs, announced a partnership today with the Retail Industry
This article was originally posted on LinkedIn. Please visit this page to view or comment on the original article. Dear Colleague, It is perhaps most fitting for me to begin by saying that this letter was written by a human being. Who would have thought that the day would
The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines: The Rearview Mirror and the Road Ahead by Earnie Broughton, ECI Senior Advisor This year marks 30 years since the release of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO) by the US Sentencing Commission (USSC). The FSGO marked the transition from a period of relatively few
Tomorrow (Saturday, July 30) marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of Pub.L. 107-204; also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or SOX. Introduced as the broadest-sweeping legislation to affect corporations and public accounting since the 1933 securities act, SOX made a significant impact on audit, accounting, and financial reporting
ECI recently convened a small group of ECI members to discuss how their organizations are responding to the War in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine put culture and values at the forefront of strategic business discussions and decisions being made at companies of all types and sizes. In a recent
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