Compliance Culture Building Block #4: HELP Your People
By Margaret Scavotto, JD, CHC Director of Compliance Services Management Performance Associates This is the fourth installment of the Compliance Culture Building Blocks series. Compliance is...
View ArticleOverreach: A Sure Way to a Compliance Officer’s Demise
By Roy Snell roy.snell@corporatecompliance.org Once in a while, someone suggests or implies that compliance professionals should be involved in executive compensation. It seems to me, that is the...
View Article“Having an Ethics Hotline is a Really, Really Bad idea.” (Really?)
By Jim Brennan jamesmbrennan@att.net Sometimes they admit it openly . . . but usually they don’t. Whether it is openly expressed or not, though, it’s true: many members of management, especially...
View ArticleCareer Planning in Compliance
By John Nocero john.nocero@barberinstitute.org I read an article this past weekend on career planning that was written by Marc Andreessen in 2007. It is one of the most fascinating and genuine pieces I...
View ArticleComing Home
By John Nocero “Coming Home” is a song written by American rapper and producer Diddy (also known as Sean “Puffy” Combs) and his band Dirty Money that was released in 2010. The song is inspired by...
View ArticleCompliance Culture Building Block #6: Pave a Two-Way Street
By Margaret Scavotto, JD, CHC Director of Compliance Services Management Performance Associates Does the Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) play a prominent role in your...
View ArticleCompliance Fiction
By Roy Snell roy.snell@corporatecompliance.org Let me tell you a completely fabricated compliance story. A company of 250 employees had a compliance and ethics program. They had brought in independent...
View ArticleTime Management: 50 Bucks Worth
Walter E. Johnson Compliance & Ethics Professional walter@wejohnson.org Organizations are finalizing their strategies for the upcoming year. Ethics and Compliance Officers are updating their...
View ArticleGovernment Enforcement vs. Compliance Programs in the Global Economy
By Roy Snell roy.snell@corporatecompliance.org We talk a lot about the government’s oversight of business. It gets a lot of negative press. But imagine, if you will, an environment in which the...
View ArticleUnfair & Unbalanced with Tom Fox & Roy Snell – Episode 3
Taped live in SCCE’s Minneapolis office, Tom and Roy discuss: Breaking into the compliance profession; More importantly, finding a job in the compliance profession; How social media is your...
View ArticleEthikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Happy Birthday Sarbanes-Oxley: Let’s Talk...
Examining ethics and compliance issues in business since 1987 Happy Birthday Sarbanes-Oxley: Let’s talk global ethics and regulation By Dina Medland for Forbes Are you confident your employees will...
View ArticleThe Ethical, Professional and Personal Challenges of Being Both a Company’s...
By Odell Guyton, Esq. Carol Heliker, Esq. Anne Tkacs, Esq. Rebecca Walker Here is “The Ethical, Professional and Personal Challenges of Being Both a Company’s Lawyer and its C&E Professional” from...
View ArticleRefresh, Renew, Rethink: How to Revamp your Compliance Training
By Mark Dorosz VP of Compliance Learning, Interactive Services Time tells all things, and it will often tell you that after a while you need to revamp and refresh some things within your organization....
View ArticleMentoring Compliance Professionals
By Roy Snell roy.snell@corporatecompliance.org Our profession came out of nowhere. Most of us were selected with no prior experience or education. It’s a very challenging job. Some companies that are...
View ArticleHow to implement the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
By Ricardo Pellafone, Founder, Broadcat “This is interesting, but what am I supposed to do with, like, a million questions?” – you, after reading the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs....
View ArticleHow Do I Check Compliance Functions to Make Sure They Are Working?
Patty P. Tehrani, Esq. Founder, Policy Patty Toolkit (www.policypatty.com) and author of the CCO Toolkit Series 1.0 Do you remember the last time you checked your compliance functions to see if they’re...
View ArticleWhat if the Compliance Department is Run Like A Legal Department?
By Roy Snell roy.snell@corporatecompliance.org I was asked what to do if the compliance department was performing as the in house counsel rather than a compliance department. This was my answer…...
View ArticleCMS Emergency Preparedness Requirement
By Erika Ables, CHC, CHPC Sr. Compliance Analyst, Availity As you are likely aware by now, CMS’ final rule on Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Providers and Suppliers...
View ArticleEthikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: ‘My Hands Were Tied”: How Readers Handled...
Examining ethics and compliance issues in business since 1987 My hands were tied’: How readers handled unethical workplace requests By Brianna Milord for The New York Times After an article providing...
View ArticleFour Winning Ways to Work with the Legal Department
By Kristy Grant-Hart KristyGH@SparkCompliance.com How do you work with the Legal Department? Do you have a good relationship? If so, why and how? These are the questions I’ve been asking my...
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