Case Study: Functional Integration

A global food company for whom we have done considerable ethics and compliance work over the years has sought guidance from our in-house expert advisors at the Ethical Leadership Group (ELG) on how it might most effectively integrate its ethics efforts and its CR efforts. The functions are linked structurally in the organization, but the individual pieces – which work well in their individual roles – have not yet maximized the opportunities of seamless integration.

ELG is bringing its ethics, compliance and corporate responsibility expertise to bear on helping this client develop systems and processes that will promote full functional integration between these far-flung groups within the client’s global organization. This involves examining culture, incentives, business drivers, and the total array of factors that go into understanding and managing large, complex, multinational and multifunctional organizations.

This is a work in progress, but the operative word is “progress”. The client has demonstrated a strong interest in making this work, and ELG’s ongoing efforts in support of this goal have clearly helped make a difference.