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Is gaming a hot new trend in employee communications?

March 01 2011

Your company may soon be using interactive games to teach employees, reach the public and market products.

When the Internet powerhouse Yahoo wanted to teach ethics to its employees, it faced a challenge familiar to multinational companies.

Yahoo employs nearly 14,000 people at 25 sites worldwide. Some work in environments where, say, a local inspector might hint that building permits would come through more quickly if somebody slipped him an envelope of cash.

But let’s face it: Yahoo’s tech-savvy staff would chafe at sitting down in front of a dated video in which actors with 1980s haircuts enact ethical dilemmas. So it hired a Georgia-based company called The Network to animate a game that involves a flying trailer, as well…

Ethics hotline protects students, employees

February 27 2011

The Network Ethics and Reporting Hotline is a toll-free number that anyone in the Georgia College community can call when they fall victim to sexual harassment, theft, violence, fraud, discrimination, or any crime of moral turpitude.

The Network Ethics and Reporting Hotline is not a direct-response program, but the hotline provides an alternative avenue for reporting incidences through an independent company and also provides an opportunity for the reporter to remain anonymous.

Sophomore middle grades education major, Kaitlin Ward is wary about the hotline.

“If I felt really threatened I would call the hotline, but I wouldn’t call if it was something little. If it kept reoccurring I would call,” Ward said.

Public Safety, Office of Human Resources and Office of Internal Audit are readily…

Dodd-Frank: A game changer for ethics?

February 04 2011

There are countless reasons to build an ethical culture in your company: to increase corporate transparency, to protect your shareholders and employees, to reduce the risk of lawsuits (internally and externally), to maintain brand reputation, and to promote market integrity, among others.

Certainly, the Enron, Tyco and WorldCom disasters showed the horrifying extent to which corporate fraud can harm employees, their families, associated companies and the markets at large. In response to those events, the U.S. passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 to strongly dissuade companies from behaving unethically or engaging in fraud.

SOX is widely regarded as the most significant legislation in terms of regulations and ethics. However, a few years later, the now infamous subprime mortgage crisis, TARP bailout and Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi…

Rolling the dice

January 07 2011

Risk tolerance is often the difference between success and failure in business. But just how well do directors cope with jeopardy? We invite a group of leaders to undergo a psychological test.

Are these the riskiest times we’ve ever faced? An internet news search suggests that society and our personal and business lives are being constantly informed by perceived uncertainties.

On one day towards the end of last year, French economy minister Christine Lagarde told us that the eurozone was not at risk of breaking up despite jitters over Ireland’s creditworthiness; Qatar was the only one of nine contenders to stage the World Cup in 2018 or 2022 to receive an overall “high” operational risk rating from Fifa; and if you took regular exercise…

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