Lead by example: the many benefits of ethical leadership
Ethical leadership can help avoid corporate crises if it is embraced by boards that are increasingly less tolerant of reputational risk.
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Corporate culture has become a subject of significant discourse lately, and it’s to no-one’s surprise given the seemingly perpetual headlines of corporate misconduct.
The good news is that since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 was passed, an ethics and compliance industry has ossified and bestowed us with incredible research and guidance to give these issues a larger audience, and our profession a louder voice.
One of the key facets of culture that the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) has been discussing at great length has been leadership and its relationship with healthy workplace culture. How does the tone from the top impress t
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[…] far the best way to do so is to lead by example. This is not only self-evident, but it’s also proven to lead to benefits such as reducing risk, lower rates of misconduct and less pressure to break […]