I am developing new content for my compliance team’s annual training, and we noticed from feedback on last year’s training that a quiz is no longer an effective way to test knowledge at the end of a module. Recent learning trends also emphasize short courses without a knowledge check. Would you recommend removing it? If so, how can we determine whether learners actually gained any knowledge?

In past decades, there have been a number of protest movements driven to a large extent by public anger about corruption and poor economic governance which brought down governments, including Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Ukraine’s EuroMaidan and the Tunisian Revolution. Recent years have seen mass protest movements in Asia in particular connected to economic grievances, such as the 2022 Aragalaya in Sri Lanka...

With the current geopolitical climate, developing a compliance training program is difficult, as compliance topics at the forefront continue to shift and evolve. How do I prepare for the coming year?

A CEO’s words on ethics and integrity matter. The CEO sets the tone, signals the company’s integrity priorities, and determines how employees understand the company’s culture. A CEO’s public speeches, online statements, and inspiring declarations signal leadership’s commitment to integrity. While CEOs are essential, they do not exist in a vacuum, they are one part of an integrity system.

In the Vulnerability to Resilience series, we have explored how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) use their vulnerabilities to create. SMEs possess the agility that enables them to identify risks early and maintain community and business relationships, which SMES can leverage to prioritize integrity and open new markets. Cooperation allows SMEs to raise their ethical standards in the market. In this next segment, we examine another SME advantage: the power to innovate.

For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), compliance feels like a lonely climb up a steep mountain. Costs are high, rules are constantly evolving, and there is pressure to cut corners to keep pace. Standing alone, an ethical SME can lose when competing with actors who ignore the rules.