Employee Compliance and Ethics Surveys – Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers
Employee surveys have long been part of the compliance and ethics (C&E) landscape. This post is offered as a brief introduction to practices and views relating to such surveys. Why survey Employee surveys can provide a broad array of information about many key C&E issues at a company. Most prominently they can assist companies in understanding and addressing challenges relating to C&E culture . This can help in various aspects of program self-assessments – and thus be useful to boards and top managers, among others. They can also help in program design and implementation in many other ways. Among other things, survey data can play a significant role in a risk assessment. Note, too, that surveys can be used to obtain C&E information on a granular basis. For large global companies this can be invaluable. In addition, the Department of Justice increasingly expects companies to provide data in enforcement matters . They have pushed us t...