Global Compliance's online Workplace Ethics course provides employees legally sound and engaging instruction that is customized to your organization's Code of Conduct and other relevant policies.

Most employees do not knowingly violate a law or policy. Instead, many ethical violations occur when an employee is faced with a difficult choice that requires the employee to balance competing interests where the right thing to do is not clear. uses interactive audio-visual scenarios to address the "gray areas" and provides employees practical skills for identifying and resolving these ethical dilemmas.

Course Content

Over 20 different topical modules can be packaged and customized to meet your needs. Modules use interactive audio-visual scenarios to address the "gray areas" and provide employees practical skills for identifying and resolving these ethical dilemmas.

• Antitrust - explores anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing, bid-rigging, and market allocation. Employees learn practical skills for identifying questionable activities that could put the organization at risk, including communications with competitors and subcontractors, joint development projects, and activity in industry associations. 
  
  
• Confidential Information - discusses safeguarding private information relating to business operations, clients, vendors, and employees. 
  
  
• Conflicts of Interest - examines ways to spot and handle complex situations where the employee's personal interests, or the interests of a family member, may compete with the organization's or shareholders' interests. 
  
  
• Environment- explores employees' responsibilities to perform their work and maintain their workplace in a safe and lawful manner along with the responsibility to immediately report any injuries or potential hazards. It also increases awareness of  the organization's responsibilities to protect the environment and to comply with environmental laws and regulations. 
  
  
• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - provides employees with practical questions to ask themselves to guide them in refraining from comments or actions that could by reasonably considered as harassing or discriminatory. It also teaches that employees should not be retaliated against for engaging in protected EEO activity. 
  
  
• Ethical Leadership - provides instruction for supervisors and managers on their special responsibilities to promote ethical behavior, monitor their workplaces for unethical actions, and take rapid action when unethical behavior is found or suspected. 
  
  
• Export and Anti-Boycott Laws - alerts employees to export control laws that may restrict the organization's ability to provide goods or otherwise do business in a country. It also addresses employees' responsibilities for complying with anti-boycotting laws and discusses warning signs for transactions that may be in violation of such laws. 
  
  
• Fair Dealings - teaches the rules for fair treatment of customers, vendors, and competitors. 
  
  
• Financial Integrity - discusses processes to properly account for expenses, hours worked, and other items and how discrepancies in their accounting can impact the validity of the organization's books and records. 
  
  
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) - speaks to conducting international business without violation of anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Scenarios discuss issues such as the use of "facilitating payments," proper recording of transactions, and performing due diligence when working with third parties. 
  
  
• Fraud and Abuse - explores gray areas surrounding common types of fraud and abuse, including fraudulent pricing, delivery of goods and services, and theft of company property. 
  
  
• Gifts and Favors - examines the rules for giving to and receiving gifts and favors from vendors, customers, and other employees. 
  
  
• Government Procurement - teaches compliance with contracting rules when soliciting government business.  Discusses what can and cannot be discussed with your contacts in government agencies during the sales process, how to comply with the government's rules when performing work on government contracts, how to handle inquiries from government officials about obtaining employment with your employer, and how to avoid violation of rules regulating gifts and favors to government employees. 
  
  
• Insider Trading - provides employees information on when they must refrain from trading their organization's securities or those of any entity with which the organization does business, and on how to avoid "tipping" third parties to trade on non-public, material information. 
  
  
• Intellectual Property - introduces the concept of intellectual property, including the legal protections of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and discusses each employee's obligations to respect the intellectual property rights of the organization as well as the rights of third parties. 
  
  
• Outside Opportunities -  explains the rules for holding additional jobs as well as rules regarding additional jobs that involve the employer's clients, vendors, or competitors. 
  
  
• Document Retention - explores scenarios related to employees' duties to prepare and maintain organization documents and records in a manner that is accurate, complete, honest, and timely. Issues presented include the storing and disposing of documents and e-mail. 
  
  
• Reporting Concerns - provides details on who an employee should contact and available vehicles to report concerns or ask a question about a potential ethical, compliance, or legal violation. 
  
  
• Sarbanes-Oxley -  trains on the relevant provisions of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) which creates requires accountability and transparency for organizations specific to financial matters.  SOX requires public corporations to provide an anonymous and confidential vehicle for employees to report suspicious accounting and financial reporting activity.  
  
  
• Technology - provides employees with important information on how to protect confidential information and abide by an organization's Code of Conduct while using e-mail, the Internet, and other technology tools. 
  
  
• Use of Assets - explains an organization's rules are for using computers, copiers, and other equipment for personal or charitable use.

Customization

At no additional cost, you may customize the course to include:

• An audio-visual introduction from a high-ranking official welcoming employees to the course
• Instruction on your specific policies on each topic
• Scenarios that are specific to your organization's needs
  

Acknowledgement of Policy Receipt

Global Compliance's online Code of Conduct training can require employees to electronically acknowledge that they have received your organization's Code of Ethics or similar document.

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