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IBE Masterclass:Globalising Your Ethics & Compliance Programme


A one day Course on Globalising Your Ethics & Compliance Program
  • How can you globalise your ethics program without sacrificing company standards?
  • How can you develop an effective global code of conduct?
  • What can you do to ensure training and reporting channels are appropriate for international employees?
  • How can you continuously assess risk and new regional issues?

This course gives participants an understanding of:

  • How to avoid common cultural pitfalls when rolling out a global ethics program
  • Respecting local cultures without sacrificing corporate values on a variety of issues
  • Best practices in drafting, translating, and disseminating a truly global code of conduct
  • Assessing and reducing risk factors
  • How to launch an effective global training program
  • Best practices in structuring and communicating advice and reporting channels for international employees
  • Strategies for successfully tackling corruption and facilitation payments
  • Pluses and Minuses of signing international standards


The programme is designed for:

  • Those who want to enhance the validity and relevance of their global initiative and/or business practices among international affiliates
  • Ethics practitioners who are newly responsible for a global program or are globalizing their program for the first time
  • Those who are revising an existing global ethics and compliance programme

Course methods will include interactive discussion, group exercises, and discussion of current best practice. Participants will receive copies of the International Business Ethics Institute's new publication, Reflecting an International Workforce: the Comprehensive Guide to Developing an Effective Global Business Conduct Program.


Programme

9:00am REGISTRATION

9:30am Globalising Your Programme: The Basics
Introductions
Course objectives

Cultural Considerations
What to consider?
Resources for cross-cultural understanding

Developing Global Programmes: Overall Processes
How to leverage internal resources
Motivating International Senior Management

11:00am COFFEE

11:30am Local Customs vs. Corporate Values
Discussion of conflicts between local customs and corporate values

Global Codes of Conduct
How to develop an effective global code of conduct
Strengths and weaknesses of key code provisions

12:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm Globalising Your Programme: The Next Level

Ethics Training
Approaches for training in different parts of the world

Reporting Channels
Key issues in launching reporting channels
How to communicate channels in different regions
Privacy concerns

2:45pm TEA

3:00pm Dealing with Corruption and Bribery: An Interview with 'Senor X'
'Senor X,' a former official at a key ministry in a Latin American country, will provide a view of corruption and offer strategies to successfully navigate through these issues

International Standards
Review of international standards
Pluses and minuses of becoming a signatory

Summing Up
Globalisation checklist
Questions

4:30pm CLOSE

The course will be particularly useful to practitioners who have already completed IBE's one day Making Business Ethics Work course, although this is not essential.

The programme will take place at the IBE, 24 Greencoat Place, London SW1P 1BE on Thursday 4th June 2009.

Cost of the course (including a light lunch):
IBE subscribers: £175 per delegate
Non-subscribers: £200 per delegate

Register today!        

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