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BELA Asks: How Do I Address Unethical Behavior During Personal Hours?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Address Unethical Behavior During Personal Hours?

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby 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.

Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I address unethical employee behavior that happens outside of work hours, but could negatively impact the organization’s reputation or business relationships?

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

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Ethicast: Driving Ethics & Business Integrity with Data

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Ethicast: Driving Ethics & Business Integrity with Data

Ridesharing pioneer Uber recently earned the coveted Compliance Leader Verification from Ethisphere in recognition of its alignment with ethics and compliance best practices, program monitoring, and use of data analytics to ensure program effectiveness. In this Ethicast episode, Katy Creecy, Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance Programs, joins us to explain how Uber’s innovative and impactful data analytics strategy is moving the company’s E&C needle in a meaningful way.

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

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Ethicast: The Weiderhorn Indictment Puts Corrupt CEOs on Notice

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Ethicast: The Weiderhorn Indictment Puts Corrupt CEOs on Notice

In this Ethicast episode, Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer & BELA Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne explains some of the key governance takeaways and implications from the developing story of Andrew Weiderhorn, the former CEO of casual dining company Fat Brands, who has been indicted for looting his own company. Weiderhorn, a convicted felon who did time in 2004-05, is accused of orchestrating nearly $47 million in bogus personal loans from Fat Brands to fund his lavish lifestyle, as part of a long-running pattern of fraud and tax evasion.

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Ethicast: Using Demographics to Find Your Culture’s Problem Areas

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Ethicast: Using Demographics to Find Your Culture’s Problem Areas

Measuring your culture provides a valuable look at how the daily lived experience of you organization advances and upholds best practices and stated values. In this Ethicast episode, Katie Kruger, a Data Analyst on Ethisphere’s Data & Services team, explains how understanding the different experiences of employees based on their gender, ethnicity, age, tenure, locations, sector, etc., provides vital context around where your culture is strongest…and where it might be coming up short.

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Ethicast: Driving Excellence at the “Original ESG Company”

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Ethicast: Driving Excellence at the “Original ESG Company”

David Fountain and Jennifer Grace from the Tennessee Valley Authority join the Ethicast to discuss how TVA continues to develop and advance its ethics and compliance program within their unique marketplace mandate, and as an organization that considers itself “the original ESG company.” Hear about their recent achievements, strategic initiatives for the year ahead, exemplifying ESG during a time of pushback, and more.

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