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Supply Chain Due Diligence: Regulations & Guidance Comparison

Supply Chain Due Diligence: Regulations & Guidance Comparison Guide

Increasing due diligence regulations are putting greater pressure on supply chains, as well as procurement and compliance teams struggling to keep up with an ever-evolving environment. Meeting and exceeding global supply chain due diligence requirements necessitates a full understanding of all guidelines and acts enacted and enforced around the world.

This resource can be used as a guide to the areas and issues that need to be addressed when conducting global or regional supply chain due diligence. It covers the key elements for mature programs that are aligned with legal requirements and includes a sample of the relevant regulations.

Regulations in the comparison guide include:

  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Due Diligence Guidelines (OECD)
  • German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Germany)
  • Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (USA)
  • French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law (France)
  • Japan’s Guidelines on Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence (Japan)
  • European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU)
  • Canada’s Corporate Respect for Human Rights and the Environment Abroad Act (Canada)

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Ethicast: How Compassionate Culture Builds Organizational Value

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Ethicast: How Compassionate Culture Builds Organizational Value

Through regular culture assessments, organizations can measure their culture and spot where their strengths and opportunities for improvement lie. But knowing where your organization’s culture needs help and knowing how to help it are two very different things.

In this episode, culture transformation coach, host of the Chazin the Dream podcast, and author of The Compassionate Organization, Ethan Chazin, discusses how organizations build thriving cultures by leveraging trust, developing powerful vision and mission statements, and applying ethical best practices to build effective workplace cultures.

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BELA Asks: What Goes into a Good Corrective Action Framework Policy?

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BELA Asks: What Goes into a Good Corrective Action Framework Policy?

In this episode, BELA Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne, addresses what goes into establishing the bedrock of organizational justice: a good corrective action framework policy.

In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

To learn more about BELA, please visit https://bela.ethisphere.com to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

If you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we will get to it as soon as we can.

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Your E&C Program

Global Ethics Summit

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Your E&C Program

Artificial intelligence is on the rise, both in the news and within organizations. Ethics and compliance teams can get into the AI game and use it to the benefit of their programs. It can be used to take over repetitive, menial tasks, simplify the ethics and compliance role, and scale your impact. In this session, hear from panelists on what AI can be used for, how AI can be a tool for E&C teams, not a replacement, and how to get started in using AI and other innovative technology.

Panelists:

  • Beth Noble, Vice President of Sales, Learning Pool
  • Hemma Lomax, VP, Associate General Counsel, Global Integrity, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Zendesk
  • Dion Azordegan, Head of Compliance Operations, Honeywell
  • Kristi Kevern, Director, Ethics & Compliance, Dell Technologies

Key timestamps:

  • 10:29 – getting started with AI
  • 21: 18 – areas to explore with AI
  • 26:57 – hesitancies around AI
  • 29:18 – leadership messaging around AI use
  • 38:12 – audience questions

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Spotlight on Verizon – How Compliance & Risk Make a Great Partnership

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Spotlight on Verizon – How Compliance & Risk Make a Great Partnership

As a major telecommunications provider, Verizon operates within a complex regulatory landscape that requires a proactive and strategic approach to compliance and risk management. By fostering a strong partnership between compliance and enterprise risk management (ERM), Verizon has not only strengthened its ethics and compliance program, but has also achieved significant recognition, including be named one of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies and earning Ethisphere’s Compliance Leader Verification recognition.

This case study explores how Verizon’s compliance team, led by Chief Compliance Officer, David Kass, integrates risk assessments into its broader ethics strategy to drive executive engagement, build data-driven insights, and empower business leaders to take ownership of compliance responsibilities.

To learn more about Ethisphere’s Compliance Leader Verification, click here.

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