Welcome to a special five-part podcast series on enhancing corporate culture through a great speak-up regime. This podcast series is sponsored by Case IQ. Over this series, Tom Fox will visit with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime and how each of those facets will improve your corporate culture. They will tackle such topics as the indicia of a great corporate culture, the importance of triage and internal investigations in improving corporate culture, non-retaliation and protections for those who speak up, tying your entire system of speaking up to improving culture, and conclude with some thoughts on how an entire system of speaking up drives corporate culture to be better run and, at the end of the day, more profitably. In this concluding Part 5, Tom Fox discusses the ROI of a true culture of speaking up.

Strong reporting systems and a robust corporate culture must be balanced in business efficiency. One great academic paper demonstrates how companies with robust whistleblower and reporting systems enjoy greater profitability, increased workforce productivity, and fewer material lawsuits. Tom has seen firsthand the transformative power of a culture of speaking up. He emphasizes that it’s about having a hotline and an entire system with employee engagement. This culture of ‘SpeakUp’ can provide actionable information to prevent, detect, and remediate issues before they become legal violations and can contribute to a functioning and ethical corporate culture. A culture of trust and empowerment ultimately leads to motivated employees who can contribute to business efficiency and greater profitability. Join Tom Fox on this Breaking the Silence: How Speaking Up Enhances Corporate Culture podcast episode to delve deeper into this fascinating topic.

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