BELA Asks: Live! at the 2024 Global Ethics Summit

BELA Asks: Live! at the 2024 Global Ethics Summit

We brought the Ethicast series, BELA Asks, to the Global Ethics Summit. Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, and Editor-in-Chief, Bill Coffin, sit down and answer the questions that attendees asked.

In part one they answer the question, “How do I get up to speed quickly if this is my first time working as part of an ethics and compliance team?”

In part two, they answer two questions:

• “How can a compliance team that is split between different departments (i.e., human resources and legal) produce great results despite being decentralized?”
• “What reporting mechanism should I consider when we see hotline numbers going down, but we also have difficulty convincing employees it is safe to raise concerns?”

In part three, they answer another two questions:

• “What type of metrics are companies using to tie the leadership team’s short-term incentive to ethical conduct, outside of training completion?”
• “What are some questions to ask when onboarding new suppliers? What about new hires?”

In part four, they answer two more questions:

• “How do you build strong working relationships between the ethics and compliance function and allied functions?”
• How do you convince people that the ethics and compliance team is not merely the ‘no’ or ‘police’ function?”