Ethics and Compliance Assessments

From code to culture to risk, our expert assessments add value

The internationally-recognized expert advisors at Global Compliance have unmatched experience in assessing your organization. From performing a Code of Conduct review to conducting a risk assessment to evaluating your culture, Global Compliance offers the following ethics and compliance assessments:

• Code of Conduct Review - Assessing and developing a Code of Conduct that adds value to your organization. In addition to reviews, Global Compliance also offers web-based Code of Conduct training.
• Ethics and Compliance Program Assessment - Evaluating the effectiveness of your current ethics and compliance program.
• Ethics and Compliance Risk Assessment - Cost-effectively assessing the ethics and compliance risks specific to your industry, region or organization—regardless of whether you currently have a program in place.
• Corporate Responsibility Assessment and Training - Maximizing your ability to build and reinforce your reputational equity with stakeholders.
• Organizational Culture Assessment - Defining, measuring and understanding your organization's culture and subcultures.
• Ethical Sourcing Program - Developing Supplier Codes of conduct and implementing tools to monitor and certify your supply chain’s commitment to basic human rights, anticorruption, environmental and other social standards. It’s now the law in California with SB 657: the Transparency in Supply Chains Act.
• Social Medial Policy Review - Developing, defining, producing and promoting your social media policy so employees understand how to appropriately use social media in your workplace.
• Global Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy Review - Developing, defining, producing and promoting your global bribery and anti-corruption policy – ensuring compliance with the UK Bribery Act, FCPA – and other key international requirements.

To meet U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines requirements

Amended in 2004 in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines outline the parameters for what qualifies as an effective compliance and ethics program. The Guidelines provide a strong incentive for employers to take proactive action to prevent unethical and illegal conduct. Specifically, organizations that can show that they have instituted an effective ethics and compliance program can greatly reduce the potential fines and other punishment that they might face. Conversely, the absence of an effective compliance and ethics program may be used to increase the punishment the organization receives.

In fact, the US Sentencing Commission has written that: "The potential fine range for a criminal conviction can be significantly reduced - in some cases up to 95 percent - if an organization can demonstrate that it had put in place an effective compliance and ethics program and that the criminal violation represented an aberration within an otherwise law-abiding community."
 

In addition to assessments, Global Compliance also offers a comprehensive suite of web-based  ethics training courses - including preventing sexual harassment training."