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Ethical Advocate Blog

August 13, 2013

Companies that offer confidential reporting options through internal or external ethics hotlines and then conduct…

July 23, 2013

The generation group often called “Millennials” or Gen Y consists of people born between 1980…

July 09, 2013

Ethics hotlines play an important role in ethics and compliance programs. They provide an alternative…

June 14, 2013

“Ten business days after you complete your report please return to the ethics hotline to…

June 03, 2013

Your ethics program is an investment, one you’ve made to improve your organization’s ability to…

May 20, 2013

“That” was discriminatory? How many times have we heard “that” question, which is not really…

February 25, 2013

When a company puts an ethics hotline system into place and receives its first tip…

January 28, 2013

Once you’ve made your decision that it’s time to launch an employee ethics hotline, you…

March 07, 2012

Most of us don’t think about including outsiders like vendors and suppliers in our fraud…

October 31, 2011

In a 2011, global study by KPMG, “Who is the Typical Fraudster?”, 348 cases of…

April 21, 2009

According to "The Case for Anonymous Hotlines", published in Risk and Insurance, by Dave Slovin,…

October 17, 2008

Many people believe that organizational structure and management systems are hard and neutral. It’s not…