Section 4

Amplifying Your Impact

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Set and Beat Your Benchmarks

See how your compliance program stacks up against your peers and learn new strategies to increase the effectiveness of what you’re already doing. 

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Achieving an effective ethics and compliance program requires more than simply adding rules and additional layers of controls. There must be an integrated effort that aligns financial and compliance requirements with the organization’s mission and values. The steps you take as a compliance professional should not be in isolation of your organization’s larger business objectives but in support of them.

Along with aligning with organizational goals, your compliance program can compound its impact by focusing on industry best practices that maximize efforts. This section will highlight the latest best practices in the use of technology, program automation and industry benchmarks to amplify the impact of key compliance program elements.

What Tech Companies Need to Do to Combat Retaliation Lock Icon Icon of the outline of a padlock.

Despite some recent signs that the tech sector was beginning to learn from its mistakes, new research shows that too many tech employees still fear backlash after reporting workplace incidents.

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Despite some recent signs that the tech sector was beginning to learn from its mistakes, new research shows that too many tech employees still fear backlash after reporting workplace incidents.

The anonymous app Blind surveyed nearly 4,400 employees in 2019 from major tech companies, and 41.4 percent said they had experienced retaliation from management or HR after reporting an incident. Some of the biggest names in technology have been lambasted of late in the headlines for compliance failures, notably involving sexual harassment.