Ethicast

One of the best benefits of being a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) is that if you have any questions at all about ethics and compliance, you can submit them to BELA’s concierge service, which will connect you with one of our internal experts who will provide an answer and/or direct you to a helpful resource for more information.

Sometimes, these requests are specific to a particular company’s needs. But most of them speak to broad challenges facing BELA members in general, and by extension, the wider ethics and compliance profession. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I address unethical employee behavior that happens outside of work hours, but could negatively impact the organization’s reputation or business relationships?

Ridesharing pioneer Uber recently earned the coveted Compliance Leader Verification from Ethisphere in recognition of its alignment with ethics & compliance best practices, program monitoring, and use of data analytics to ensure program effectiveness. In this episode, Katy Creecy, Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance Programs, joins us to explain how Uber's innovative and impactful data analytics strategy is moving the company’s E&C needle in a meaningful way.

Uber's Ethics & Compliance Program: https://tinyurl.com/nkw4pnae

Compliance Leader Verification Program: www.ethisphere.com/solutions

Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance Erica Salmon Byrne explains some of the key governance takeaways and implications from the developing story of Andrew Weiderhorn, the former CEO of casual dining company Fat Brands, who has been indicted for looting his own company. Weiderhorn, a convicted felon who did time in 2004-2005, is accused of orchestrating nearly $47 million in bogus personal loans from Fat Brands to fund his lavish lifestyle, as part of a long-running pattern of fraud and tax evasion.

USDO-CDCA press release: https://tinyurl.com/2s3aduzc

Oregon Live Coverage: https://tinyurl.com/2s73x96v

Franchise Times Coverage: https://tinyurl.com/5n9ywvma

Free Governance Resources: www.ethisphere.com/resources

Measuring your culture provides a valuable look at how the daily lived experience of your organization advances and upholds best practices and stated values. In this episode, Katie Kruger, a Data Analyst on Ethisphere’s Data & Services team, explains how understanding the different experiences of employees based on their gender, ethnicity, age, tenure, location, sector, etc., provides vital context around where your culture is strongest...and where it might be coming up short.

To learn more about the great work that Katie and the rest of the Ethisphere Culture team does with organizations around the world, be sure to check out the Spring issue of Ethisphere Magazine, available at magazine.ethisphere.com.

For a wealth of free reports, presentations, webinars and more, including the foundational Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture, visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at ethisphere.com/resources.

To connect with the Ethisphere Culture team and learn how you can measure and elevate your organization’s culture, please visit ethisphere.com/solutions.

The Tennessee Valley Authority—a self-funding corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for nearly 10 million people across seven states—is the first federal agency to earn back-to-back Compliance Leader Verification recognitions from Ethisphere.

Join David Fountain and Jennifer Grace as they discuss how TVA continues to develop and advance its ethics & compliance program within TVA's unique marketplace mandate, and as an organization that considers itself "the original ESG company."

TVA's recent achievements, and the year ahead

Strategic initiatives for the year ahead

Exemplifying ESG at a time of ESG pushback

Using culture to drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives

Aspects of TVA's program that you can integrate into your own

How external validation empowers TVA's E&C program to do more

To follow David and Jennifer’s work, visit tva.com. And to learn more about Ethisphere’s Compliance Leader Verification Program, please visit ethisphere.com/solutions.

Culture surveys are a vital way to measure, analyze, and transform workplace cultures into bastions of integrity. But getting the survey data is just the first step. In this episode, Doug Allen, Vice President of Data Strategy at Ethisphere, discusses how communicating post-assessment learnings and action plans can make the difference between an exercise that doesn’t really change anything and one that can help an organization take a meaningful step forward on its ethics and compliance maturity journey.

Learn more about how measuring culture builds organizational value in the Spring issue of Ethisphere Magazine, available at www.magazine.ethisphere.com.

For a wealth of free reports, presentations, webinars and more, including the foundational Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture, visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources.

To connect with the Ethisphere Culture team and learn how you can measure and elevate your organization’s culture, please visit www.ethisphere.com/solutions.

Ethical lapses are often chalked up to a rogue employee who might just be a bad person. But is it ever really that simple? Recent scholarship suggests otherwise, and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne discusses how impossible management goals paves the way for ethical shortcuts...and what companies can do to break that cycle.

“When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners”: www.hbswk.hbs.edu

Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity: www.e-elgar.com

Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture: www.ethisphere.com/resources

As our series on measuring and analyzing culture continues, Emilie Anderson, a Culture Analyst on the Data & Services team at Ethisphere, explains that conducting a formal culture survey and making the best use of the data it produces can be two very different things. Data is data, but context is everything. And when it comes to diving into the data your culture survey produces, helpful analysis can separate truth from perception, and offer a helpful road map toward organizational transformation.

To learn more about the great work that Emilie and the rest of the Ethisphere Culture team does with organizations around the world, be sure to check out the Spring issue of Ethisphere Magazine at www.magazine.ethisphere.com

For a wealth of free reports, presentations, webinars and more, including the foundational Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture, visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources

To connect with the Ethisphere Culture team and learn how you can measure and elevate your organization’s culture, visit www.ethisphere.com/solutions

In this episode, Transparency Champion, former SEC lawyer, and RealTransparentDisclosure.com Editor Broc Romanek shares some of the best practices in corporate transparency that are highlighted by the annual Transparency Awards, which rank the S&P 250's quality in disclosure and information-sharing across a range of categories, including ESG Reports, Form 10-K, proxy statements, investor relations websites, codes of conduct, and more.

To learn more about the Transparency Awards, as well as to view a full list of 2023’s winners, please visit www.transparencyawards.com. For the 2024 awards criteria, visit www.transparencyawards.com/2024-criteria.

To learn more about ESG, Codes of Conduct, and corporate governance, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources. 

Your company probably thinks it has a great culture, but how do you know for sure? Gathering specific metrics help organizations better understand where their cultural strengths and opportunities for improvement lie. Curtis Leicht, Senior Data Analyst at Ethisphere, shares ways in which organizations can make their business integrity efforts more achievable, repeatable, and reportable through formal assessment and measurement.

Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/resources

2023 Culture Report: https://ethisphere.com/2023-culture-report/

Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture: https://ethisphere.com/the-eight-pillars-of-an-ethical-culture/

Ethisphere Culture team: https://ethisphere.com/solutions