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Surveys

SCCE periodically surveys the compliance and ethics community on a variety of trending topics. Explore the results of these surveys by using the links below.

Compliance, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

Published: 08/01/2009

To help determine what employers are doing to manage worker usage of social networking sites, the SCCE and HCCA conducted a survey among compliance and ethics professionals. The results show that while one-fourth of companies have already had to discipline an employee, only 10% have a policy addressing social network sites. In addition, monitoring of online activity is still underdeveloped.

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Compensation, Performance, Compliance and Ethics

Published: 05/01/2009

Companies for years have sought to align their compensation, incentive, and performance evaluation programs with individual and corporate goals. New research among compliance and ethics professionals conducted jointly by the Society of Corporate Com­pliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association reveals that when it comes to compliance and ethics metrics, very little has been done to incent ethical behavior.

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Anticipating and Planning for the Next Big Compliance Issue:

Published: 01/01/2009

Over the last few years the compliance community has had to adjust to success waves of changes in priorities as “new” compliance issues are identified. With each new issue that arises compliance teams are forced to scramble to put in place programs to manage this new, suddenly hot risk area. Training must be developed, broad communication plans are put in place, systems are examined, controls are implemented and tested. Yet, each of these responses are reactive, which means there is a gap between the controls in place and the risks that exist.

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The Importance of Ethical Culture: Increasing Trust and Driving Down Risks

Published: 01/01/2009

We like to believe that, as adults, we make decisions independently and are far beyond succumbing to peer pressure. But social science research tells us that is simply not the case. Study after study confirms it: the vast majority of people act based on the circumstances in their environment and the standards set by their leaders and peers, even if it means compromising their personal moral ideals. "Good" people do bad things if they are put in an environment that doesn't value values, if pressured to believe that they don't have any choice but to get the job done—whatever it takes. This report, sponsored by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), is published by the Ethics Resource Center (ERC).

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Third Party Risk Management: A Long Way To Go

Published: 01/01/2009

Despite the proliferation of third party relationships in business, relatively few companies set ethics and compliance expectations on the companies that they rely on to act on their behalf. The SCCE survey found that only about half of companies (47%) disseminate their internal, employee code of conduct to third parties. Just 26% require that third parties certify to their codes of conduct, and only 17% of organization have a code of conduct that is applicable to third parties. These relatively weak controls pose a great risk in the current enforcement environment.

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2008 Economy on Compliance: Legal and Ethical Violations Risks Seen Rising, But Not Resources to Control the Risk

Published: 12/31/2008

A December 2008 survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) reveals that the declining economy may be increasing the risk of legal and ethics violations in business. In addition, this increased risk is occurring at a time when budgets to manage those risks are expected to at best hold steady, if not decline.

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Financial Disclosure 2008

Published: 01/01/2008

A Survey of How Organizations Implement Financial Disclosure for Employees 2008 Financial Disclosure Benchmarking Report that represents a survey of how organizations manage conflicts of interest through financial disclosure and compliance questionnaires.

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