The advantages of a strong ethical culture are vast. Studies have repeatedly shown that businesses with strong ethical cultures outperform those without. This handout, pulled from our 2023 Ethical Culture Report, shares four calls to action for organizations looking to elevate their company culture.
Stakeholders know culture drives ethical behavior and performance. Regulators, investors, and other stakeholders are sophisticated in their knowledge of how culture impacts the success of an ethical and compliance program, and a company’s overall performance, and they expect companies to quantify the state of their cultures. This handout, pulled from our resource Essentials for Success in Measuring Ethical Culture, shares the value of culture surveys.
Culture is not the same as employee engagement. Engagement surveys will not provide the same type of comprehensive and targeted data that results in a true measure of an employee’s perception of ethical culture. Engagement and culture surveys are two distinct tools. This handout, pulled from our resource Essentials for Success in Measuring Ethical Culture, compares and contrasts engagement and culture surveys.
When the head of Spain’s soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, forcibly kissed star forward Jennifer Hermoso after Spain won the Women’s World Cup, it touched off a #MeToo-level controversy in Spain and the soccer world. Erica Salmon Byrne weighs in with what this moment tells us about speak-up culture, organizational justice, and gender equity.
Earlier this year, at the 14th Annual Global Ethics Summit, Ethicast co-host Aarti Maharaj sat down with Pete Tomzcak, Parter with Baker McKenzie to discuss the findings of the Best Practices in Investigations, Staffing, Structure, and Process in a Post-COVID World report jointly authored by Baker McKenzie and Ethisphere, which include:
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund is a philanthropic family foundation established in 1993 to perpetuate the philanthropy and ethical leadership of entrepreneur and telecom executive William G. McGowan. In this episode, McGowan Fund Director Gert McGowan and Interim Executive Director Brian Peckrill discuss the challenges and opportunities facing values-based leadership in the ethics economy, including:
