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Ethical Advocate Blog

July 09, 2014

Last year’s National Business Ethics Survey (NBES) reported an overall decline in workplace misconduct. The…

July 02, 2014

The roles of a company’s Human Resources (HR) and Ethics functions often overlap, making it…

May 28, 2014

The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)…

April 16, 2014

Most public companies and many private companies are required to implement whistleblower processes, which often…

April 02, 2014

Has ethics reporting stalled? The recently released 2013 National Business Ethics Survey of the U.S.…

March 12, 2014

“Every employee must take responsibility for acting with integrity, even when this means making difficult…

February 26, 2014

When is an ethics program successful? An ethics program is successful when employees at all…

February 19, 2014

Why do businesses implement ethics hotlines? There are many reasons and here are two major…

February 05, 2014

Last month one of Ethical Advocate’s blog posts addressed the topic of how to assess…

January 29, 2014

When is an ethics program successful? An ethics program is successful when employees at all…

January 22, 2014

Does your ethics and fraud hotline program exist in a silo or is it an…

January 15, 2014

Tips received through anonymous reporting mechanisms such as ethics and compliance hotlines, or helplines as…