Who Needs to Have an Active Shooter Policy? Everyone!
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Who Needs to Have an Active Shooter Policy? Everyone!

There are a number of components to an active shooter policy – with a portion being to train employees what to actually do in the event of an active shooter scenario playing out at work.  Hide? Run?  What is the chain of command in the event of an incident?  What if it is not in our offices, but is the one next door?  Safe evacuation.  Communicating clearly with first responders when you can.

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What Corporate Compliance Programs Can Teach Us About School Safety
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What Corporate Compliance Programs Can Teach Us About School Safety

Working in the world of corporate ethics and compliance for the past decade has taught me that visibility leads to knowledge. One of my favorite quotes is from Confucius, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”  I think many of the school systems across the US have a blind spot and do not realize that what worked yesterday may not work today, and certainly will not work tomorrow.

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ETHIX360 Invests in Compliance as It Hires First Chief Compliance Officer
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ETHIX360 Invests in Compliance as It Hires First Chief Compliance Officer

Stephanie Jenkins has joined ETHIX360 as their first Chief Compliance Officer.  In her role, Stephanie will be responsible for oversight of all compliance risks and quality. As Chief Compliance Officer, she will focus on building a culture of compliance from the ground up and help ensure the company meets all its compliance management responsibilities. 

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ETHIX360 Announces Exit Interview-as-a-Service
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ETHIX360 Announces Exit Interview-as-a-Service

Research has shown that exit interviews, when done internally, do not reveal the true reasons that employees are leaving.  Oftentimes, departing employees fear burning a bridge that may cost them a positive reference in the future is not worth the risk of reporting their true reason for departing, especially if it is related to management conduct.

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Why Corporate Fraud Whistleblowers Hesitate to Report Wrongdoing
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Why Corporate Fraud Whistleblowers Hesitate to Report Wrongdoing

A recent study by three professors looks at 230 of the U.S.'s largest public company frauds disclosed over a 20-year period. The study, entitled "Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?" addresses how each corporate fraud was discovered. Consistent with every other study on the subject, employee whistleblowers are the largest discovery mechanism.

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Should Workplace Sexual Harassment Victims Just Find a New Job?
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Should Workplace Sexual Harassment Victims Just Find a New Job?

Workplace sexual harassment is against the law, it is against most reasonable companies’ Code of Conduct, and certainly morally reprehensible. It saddens me that our culture dictates that when women are victimized by sexual predators, traumatized by these actions, that they should “quit and find a new job.” This behavior cannot and should not be endorsed or looked past.

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How a Corporate Moral Compass Can Drive Ethical Culture
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How a Corporate Moral Compass Can Drive Ethical Culture

As our name implies, we are in the ethics business.  I believe that alone means that we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard regarding transparency and conduct.  Ethics, along with morality and culture, are the underpinnings of the heart of any organization.  Ethical culture needs to be driven from the bottom up just as morality needs to be driven from the top down.

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ETHIX360 Acquires Assets from Charlotte-Based Intercede
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ETHIX360 Acquires Assets from Charlotte-Based Intercede

J Rollins, founder and CEO of ETHIX360 commented on the acquisition, “We are certainly excited to welcome Intercede’s clients and employees to ETHIX360. We saw in Intercede a very mature and robust cloud-based solution that drove unique value to its clients over the years. Effective immediately, we will assume responsibility for Intercede’s support obligations to its clients.”

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