The 2020 behavioral ethics and compliance index
While in the more than eight years of its existence the COI Blog has been devoted primarily to examining conflicts of interest it has also run quite a few posts on what behavioral ethics might mean for corporate compliance and ethics programs. Below is an updated version of a topical index to these latter posts. Note that a) to keep this list to a reasonable length I’ve put each post under only one topic, but many in fact relate to multiple topics (particularly the risk assessment and communication ones); and b) there is some overlap between various of the posts.
INTRODUCTION
– Business ethics research for your whole company (with Jon Haidt)
– Overview of the need for behavioral ethics and compliance
– Behavioral ethics and compliance: strong and specific medicine
– Behavioral C&E and its limits
– Behavioral compliance: the will and the way
– Behavioral ethics: back to school edition
– A valuable behavioral ethics and compliance resource
– Strengthening your C&E program through behavioral ethics
BEHAVIORAL ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Risk assessment
– Too big for ethical failure?
– Is the Road to Risk Paved with Good Intentions?
– How does your compliance and ethics program deal with “conformity bias”?
– Money and morals: Can behavioral ethics help “Mister Green” behave himself?
– Risk assessment and “morality science”
Communications and training
– Publishing annual C&E reports
– Behavioral ethics and just-in-time communications
– Values, culture and effective compliance communications
– Behavioral ethics teaching and training
– Moral intuitionism and ethics training
– The shockingly low price of virtue
– Behavioral ethics training for managers
Assessments
– Behavioral ethics program assessments
Positioning the C&E office
– What can be done about “framing” risks
– Compliance & ethics officers in the realm of bias
– Behavioral ethics, the board and C&E officers
– Lawyers as compliance officers: a behavioral ethics perspective
Accountability
– Behavioral Ethics and Management Accountability for Compliance and Ethics Failures
– Redrawing corporate fault lines using behavioral ethics
– The “inner voice” telling us that someone may be watching
– The Wells Fargo case and behavioral ethics
Whistle-blowing
– Include me out: whistle-blowing and a “larger loyalty”
Incentives/personnel measures
– Hiring, promotions and other personnel measures for ethical organizations
Board oversight of compliance
– Behavioral ethics and C-Suite behavior
– Behavioral ethics and compliance: what the board of directors should ask
Corporate culture
– Is Wall Street a bad ethical neighborhood?
– Too close to the line: a convergence of culture, law and behavioral ethics
– Ethical culture and ethical instincts
Values-based approach to C&E
– A core value for our behavioral age
– Values, structural compliance, behavioral ethics …and Dilbert
Appropriate responses to violations
– Exemplary ethical recoveries
BEHAVIORAL ETHICS AND SUBSTANTIVE AREAS OF COMPLIANCE RISK
Conflicts of interest/corruption
– Does disclosure really mitigate conflicts of interest?
– Disclosure and COIs (Part Two)
– Other people’s COI standards
– Gifts, entertainment and “soft-core” corruption
– The science of disclosure gets more interesting – and useful for C&E programs
– Gamblers, strippers, loss aversion and conflicts of interest
– Inherent conflicts of interest
– Inherent anti-conflicts of interest
– Conflict of interest? Who decides?
– Disclosure’s two-edged sword
– Nonmonetary conflicts of interest
– Charitable contributions and behavioral ethics
– More on conflicts of interest disclosure
Insider trading
– Insider trading, behavioral ethics and effective “inner controls”
– Insider trading, private corruption and behavioral ethics
Legal ethics
– Using behavioral ethics to reduce legal ethics risks
OTHER POSTS ABOUT BEHAVIORAL ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE
– New proof that good ethics is good business
– How ethically confident should we be?
– An ethical duty of open-mindedness?
– How many ways can behavioral ethics improve compliance?
– Meet “Homo Duplex” – a new ethics super-hero?
– Behavioral ethics and reality-based law
– Was the Grand Inquisitor right (about compliance)?
– Is ethics being short-changed by compliance?
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