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SCCE 2014 ECEI 1 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute May 18, 2014 Art Weiss, CCEPF, CCEPI Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer TAMKO Building Products Marjorie W. Doyle, JD, CCEPF, CCEPI Marjorie Doyle & Associates, LLC [email protected] Jane L. Mitchell Director, JL&M 1 A Primer on Organizational Ethics Agenda 2 What is culture? What is “ethical” culture? Business value of a strong culture Current ethical landscape BREAK Exercise: responding to “excuses” and “myths” How to create and maintain a strong ethical corporate culture Exercise: Creating an Action Plan
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SCCE European Compliance & Ethics InstituteMay 18, 2014

Art Weiss, CCEP‐F, CCEP‐IChief Compliance & Ethics Officer

TAMKO Building ProductsMarjorie W. Doyle, JD, CCEP‐F, CCEP‐I

Marjorie Doyle & Associates, [email protected]

Jane L. MitchellDirector, JL&M1

A Primer on Organizational Ethics

Agenda

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What is culture?

What is “ethical” culture?

Business value of a strong culture

Current ethical landscape

BREAK Exercise: responding to “excuses” and “myths”

How to create and maintain a strong ethical corporate culture

Exercise: Creating an Action Plan

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What are  Ethics?

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A set of moral Principles

The principles of conduct governing an individual or a group

A guiding philosophy

Where Does Your Organization Stand?

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“Laws control the lesser man…right conduct controls the greater one.”              Mark Twain, writer/philosopher

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”       Potter Stewart, American jurist

“Rules of society are nothing; one’s conscience is the umpire.”Marie Anne de Vichy‐Chamrond, French hostess 

and patron of the arts 1697‐1780

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Public Opinion

What is Culture?

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The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization

*Merriam‐Webster Dictionary

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What is “Ethical” Culture?

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“  …it is the extent to which an organization regards it’s values. Strong ethical cultures make doing what is right a priority. Ethical culture is often unwritten code by which employees learn what they should think and do.” *

*Ethical Culture Building: A Modern Business Imperative , Research Report, ERC (Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C.)

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“The quality of our expectations

determines the quality of our actions.”

‐‐Andre Godin (1817 – 1888)

French industrialist & social experimenter

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What Ethical Culture Looks Like

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Employees:

‐ encouraged to act on values

‐ values are clear, positive, understandable

‐ take ownership of the values

‐ trust because feel free to

communicate, respond to situations, and

share

‐ act according to values even when no one

is looking

“The misery caused by immoral leaders drives home an important point: 

Ethics is at the heart of leadership”

*Craig E. Johnson

‐‐ Craig E. Johnson

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U.S. Pentagon “troubled”Call for renewed emphasis on “developing moral character”: more 

ethics training for senior officers

• Ethical “breakdown”:  30 sailors accused of cheating on exam for nuclear reactor instructors

• Culture of “undue stress and fear”: 92 Air Force nuclear missile corps members implicated in cheating

• Kickbacks:  1,200 Army recruiters investigated for suspicion of fraud

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“Try not to become a man of success, but 

rather try to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

“If you lose dollars for the firm by bad 

decisions, I will be understanding. If you

lose reputation for the firm, I will be

ruthless.”

Warren Buffet, American financier

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”

Warren Buffet

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ethics law

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What Does This Have To Do With Ethics?

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“… ethics is the foundation for law”‐‐H. Woods Bowman, Ph.D.

Professor of public services mgmt. DePaul University

“A poor ethical culture breeds ethical breaches.  Ethical breaches then often lead to legal violations. Too often accompanying both is financial collapse.”

‐‐Marianne M. Jennings, Business Ethics Professor

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ‘em all over everything you do.”

‐‐ Elvis Presley, American Rock ‘n’ Roll Icon

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Business Value of Culture

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“   at the end of the day, your competitors can mimic and better your product offer.  They can create stronger distribution systems than yours. They can outspend you in advertising and promotions. And, of course, they can always beat you up on prices.  But the one thing a competitor cannot mimic or copy is a well‐defined corporate personality.”

Steven Howard

Corporate Ethics, Corporate Culture 

Corporate Image

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Business Benefits of Culture

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Reputation/public image

More stable and consistent reaction to ever changing rules/laws

Recruitment

Less disruptive workplace

Find problems more quickly and solve them

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“A business culture built on excellencewill most frequently outperform a culture in which [financial] success is the  singular 

objective.”

-- Peter Schultzformer CEO of BMW and Business Consultant

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How Good People Rationalize and Justify Their Unethical Conduct

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-“They don’t pay me enough”

‐ “I earned it”

‐“They owe me”

‐“They can afford it”

‐“Nobody will know”

‐“Nobody will care”

‐“Everyone else does it”

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On Rationalization and Justification

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‐When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil”

Max Lerner, American editor and political columnist (1902‐1992)

‐“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.”Julius Caesar, Roman general, statesman and writer (100‐44 B.C.)

Let’s focus on…

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A timeline to reputational catastrophe

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…the story begins to settle?

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and then the world unravels…

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2011 Jan-June

• Jan: Police open `Operation Weeting’. NOTW Editor sacked, Andy Coulson resigns• Feb: Met Police uncover more hacking victims• March: BBC Panorama alleges widespread hacking at NOTW• April: NOTW admits its phone hacking role• May: Judicial review approved• June: NOTW journalists arrested

July

• Hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone revealed. Rebekah Brooks declares she is ‘shocked’. News Corp Exec oversees investigation. Lord Leveson appointed

• NOTW closed after 168 years – loss of +200 jobs. • Coulson arrested. NewsCorp withdraws from BSkyB bid. • Met Police officers questioned. 9th NOTW employees arrested.• James & Rupert summoned to Select Committee. In WSJ Rupert admits to ‘minor

mistakes’• Rebekah Brooks resigns. News Corp issues public apology in media. Rebekah

Brooks arrested.• Met Police Commissioner and Deputy resign• News Corp shares fall 5% in US• Select Committee hearings. James Murdoch accused of misleading• PCC Chair resigns

… into greek tragedy proportions

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Some (BIG) numbers

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5,795 hacking targets identified2,266 requests for victims information made28 News International journalists requested hacking ‘service’586 voicemails recoveredThe cost in £’s News International : £1billion Metropolitan Police: £20 million Leveson inquiry: £5,442.40 Select Committee : ?? For the taxpayer and employees ??????

The Internal Culture:Conclusions of Parliamentary Select Committee

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No incentives to convey unwelcome news (if problems were contained)

Lack of openness and transparency – don’t ask, don’t tell Blame culture – “cut out the cancer” Autocratic, arbitrary, domineering leadership Culture of fear & lack of trust driven from the top Complacency and hubris Collective amnesia – wilful blindness Huge failings of corporate governance Rupert Murdoch ‘not a fit person to exercise stewardship of a

major international company’Source:News International and phone –hacking, House of Commons 2012

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Exercise: Responding to Excuses or Myths

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In groups, come up with a persuasive response to each of these statements that you mightencounter in your organization:

1. There is  no such thing as business ethics, just “do good”2. Our employees are good people, so we don’t need to focus on ethics3. Business ethics is just good guys preaching to bad guys4. Ethics is a topic for academics and theologians, not business people5. Everyone else is doing this _____, so what’s the harm?6. This is just a small thing and no one got hurt, no harm, no foul7. We can’t terminate her for that, she’s a superstar8. It’s impossible to manage ethics anyway, it’s so vague9. Business ethics is the same as social responsibility10. It’s not illegal, so it’s not unethical, right?

Poss News international here.

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Sign of Future Corporate Problems

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The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, Marianne M. Jennings, J.D.

Pressure to maintain those numbers

Fear & silence

Young’uns & a bigger than life CEO

Weak board

Conflicts

Innovation like no other

Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others

Sign of Future Corporate Problems

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Study on indicators of future problems for company, Corporate Executive Board, Compliance & Ethics Leadership Council, April 2007

‐leading indicator by a wide margin was 

“culture of retaliation and discomfort in

speaking up.”  Reasons: fear retaliation,

don’t know where or how to report, and

feel useless because nothing will be done

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“Truth” eventually becomes public

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Technology and the internet

“Three people can keep a secret if two are dead”     Hell’s Angels (original quote by Benjamin Franklin)

Bad things will eventually be discovered

Transparency as a practice in an ethical culture saves time, money, and reputation

Benefits of Strong Culture

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Employee commitment because of management character/integrity, management welcomes advice and reporting, and training on acceptable behavior

In less ethical culture, employees will not make extra efforts

McDowell, “The Hidden Bonus

in Doing the Right Thing, 

Directors’ Monthly, 9/06 

(Deloitte Consulting research)

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News International possibly here

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Benefits of Committed Workforce

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Feel responsibility to report

See value in following policies and procedures

Group intolerance of bad actors

“bad actors” less likely to advance and do serious harm

More likely to make good decisions in new situations

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Current State of Ethics

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56% of MBA students acknowledged cheating, 54% engineering, 48% education,45% law school    (Professor Donald McCabe, Rutgers University, May 2007)

76% of employees in business have observed a high level of illegal/unethical conduct at work in the last 12 month   (KPMG Organizational Integrity Survey)

Current State of Ethics (cont’d)

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65% employees don’t report violations; 96% feared being accused of not being team players; 81% feared nothing would be done; 68% feared retaliation  (Society of Human Resources Managers)

High school students: 74% cheated on an exam, 93% lied to parents, 78% lied to teachers, 37% would lie to get job, 38% took something from a store  (Josephson Institute of Ethics)

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How to Create and Maintain a Strong Ethical Culture

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“I would never suggest that ethics is simple.

Not only does one have to know the right

things to do – one must also have the

moral fortitude to do it.”

Norm Augustine, former  Chairman,

Lockheed Martin

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five 

minutes to ruin it.”

Warren Buffett

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“Nothing concentrates the mind like the 

prospect of a hanging.”

Samuel Johnson

“What you are thunders so loudly that I

cannot hear what you say  to 

the contrary.”    

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Creating and Maintaining Culture

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Leadership : (1) active supervision by the Board including asking for reports and holding management accountable, (2) senior management must talk ethical, act ethical, and provide resources for program, (3) front line supervisors –mushy middle – must act and message the values:

“A person’s individual moral framework is only the third most important factor indeciding what they’ll do. The most importantis what does their boss do…..second, theylook at their peers…”  Marshall Schminke,

Managerial Ethics: Moral Management ofPeople and Processes                                               

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Written statement of values – usually in Code, clear, understandable

Constant communication and training on values – training in all appropriate forms, daily messaging in effective forms for the culture, discussions by front line managers, publication of failures and successes as learning tool (Business Ethics Bulletins)

‐ orientation of new employees‐ special training for front line supervisors‐talk about in recruiting and hiring process

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Create expectation of reporting issues:

‐ don’t retaliate

‐ clear policy on non‐retaliation

‐ publicize various ways to report, i.e.

managers, hotline, HR

‐ front line managers to have discussions

about value of reporting

‐ publicize results of investigations/learnings

‐make improvements from failures and

publicize that happened because individuals

cared to report

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Include metrics for values in the personnel evaluation process

Include value requirements/statements in the procurement process with third parties and in processes dealing with customers and all other stakeholders

Hold all levels of employees responsible for maintaining culture by auditing, monitoring, discipline, rewards

Make clear that every activity, even in crisis, must be done within the values of the company

Consistency in discipline – the minute the “best salesman” is given a pass in the moment the culture takes a downturn 

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Measure and report status of ethical culture‐ risk assessments, surveys, focus groups, hotline reports, questions raised

Make maintaining the ethical culture a part of every job description – responsibility to report, to be educated on risks in job, no retaliation, etc.

No tolerance for disrespectful treatment of anyone – make clear what that means in your culture

Exercise: Creating an Action Plan

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Divide into groups

Discuss and decide on at least ten specific actions that you could lead your organization in doing that would contribute to the building of an ethical culture

Place those actions in a three year plan with specifics on who would be responsible for the action, when it would be done, how you would test it’s effectiveness

Select a spokesperson to report back to the larger group