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While we welcome the recommendations set out in the Freedom to Speak Up Review, putting an effective speak up culture into practice can be a challenge. To have credibility, any such a whistleblowing system and indeed the ‘guardians’ recommended in the Freedom to Speak Up Review need to be as independent as possible from mainstream management….
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Comment from Leo Martin, director of GoodCorporation While we welcome the recommendations set out in the Freedom to Speak Up Review, putting an effective speak up culture into practice can be a challenge. A demonstrable commitment from senior management that concerns can genuinely be raised without any fear of reprisal is essential; NHS Trusts will…
Three years after the UK Bribery Act came into force, businesses are still struggling to implement the procedures necessary to prevent corruption, with over a third of almost 3,000 anti-corruption controls assessed by GoodCorporation graded inadequate. The GoodCorporation paper Combating corruption: are businesses doing enough? reveals that a number of the anti-bribery procedures recommended by…
A group of senior figures from a cross-section of multinational organisations joined GoodCorporation for the Autumn Business Ethics Debate at the House of Lords in October. With five countries in the region in the bottom ten of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2014, this is clearly a problematic part of the world in which to…
Three years after the UK Bribery Act came into force, businesses are still struggling to implement the procedures necessary to prevent corruption, with over a third of almost 3,000 anti-corruption controls assessed by GoodCorporation graded inadequate. This is one the findings, published ahead of the United Nation’s International Anti-Corruption Day (9/12/14), in a white paper…
UK businesses are failing to implement adequate anti-corruption controls three years after the UK Bribery Act came into force, making new scandals “almost inevitable”, according to a report by GoodCorporation. More than a third of 3,000 anti-corruption controls assessed by the company were deemed inadequate, along with 67% of due diligence procedures. Many of the…
January 2015 A new year, a fresh start… but how many organisations will boast new resolutions? Ethical Performance talks to key industry players about what they believe will be the prime sustainability issues in 2015 There is an exciting unanimity among key players in the ethical movement about what 2015 will bring. This is the…
Businesses faced a particularly difficult year in 2014 with major banks falling foul of the regulators due to trading and system failures; retail giants dealing with financial holes; and implementation of new remuneration and bonus clawback rules. It seems this trend of heavy regulation, implementing new rules and regulations and closer scrutiny – by regulators,…
The markets of Mexico and Indonesia present opportunities and risks. GoodCorporation analyses the prospects for businesses in these emerging markets in the January 15 edition of Governance & Compliance Magazine Much has been written about the potential and economic performance of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China. As growth in these markets…
Published on the Governance & Compliance website on December 19 2014 FIFA is to release the full report of its inquiry into the bidding processes for hosting the World Cup in Qatar and Russia, in answer to corruption allegations. FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter has said, in an official statement, that the FIFA executive committee has…
