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 12th June 2008.
Cost of the course (including a light lunch):
IBE subscribers: £150 per delegate
Non-subscribers: £175 per delegate
Register
today!
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