Join three ex-employees who blew the whistle on major ethical lapses. Learn about whistleblower lawsuits and what ERC's research says about reporting, retaliation and ethical culture.
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December 8, 2008 -- Noon to 2 p.m. ESTRegistration Fee: $99 per attendee. ERC Fellows, $79 per attendee. Group Rate (3 or more attendees on one line), $200 per group.
Registration deadline: December 3
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Participants:
Roger L. Barnes, a former Fannie Mae accounting manager whose disclosures triggered a $6.3B earnings restatement
John W. Schilling, a former Medicare fraud investigator and cost report auditor whose disclosures were instrumental in the federal government recovering $1.7B from Columbia/HCA for Medicare fraud
David Welch, a former CFO at Cardinal Bank and the first whistleblower to win at trial in a Sarbanes-Oxley retaliation case
Jason Zuckerman, a principal at The Employment Law Group, whose practice focuses on representing corporate whistleblowers
Leslie Altizer, ERC's senior director of benchmarking services
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Performance Reviews Often Skip Ethics, HR Professionals Say
Less than half of organizations include ethical conduct in employee appraisals
Alexandria, VA, June 12, 2008 – In a new national survey, only 43 percent of human resources professionals said their organizations include ethical conduct as part of employees' performance appraisals.
In the study released jointly today by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Ethics Resource Center (ERC), human resource professionals said they are their organizations' primary resource for ethics-related issues, and they help create ethics policies. But most don't feel that they are truly part of the ethics infrastructure. Instead, they are just asked to "clean up" the situations caused by ethics violations.
The SHRM/ERC study, The Ethics Landscape in American Business, was conducted for the third time since 1997. It is the only measure of its kind—one that examines the attitudes of human resource professionals about ethics in their workplace.
MERCK'S CHIEF ETHICS OFFICER
SELECTED TO LEAD ERC FELLOWS
Jacqueline E. Brevard, vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer of Merck & Co., Inc., has been selected as chair of the Ethics Resource Center's highly regarded Fellows program, ERC President Patricia J. Harned announced May 13.
Brevard, who is a founding member of the Fellows and serves on its advisory board, will serve a two-year term.
The Fellows include senior ethics and compliance officers from business, government and nonprofits, as well as college and university-level academics. The program, which typically numbers about 60 participants, focuses on research and writing about emerging ethics and compliance issues, principles and best practices.
"Our Fellows are an elite group of leaders who collectively identify the challenges that will confront their organizations in the next five to 10 years, and they equip themselves with strategies to help their organizations respond with the highest integrity," Harned said. "I can think of no better individual to lead this group. Jacquie has been a Fellow since the inception of the program, and as a senior executive herself, I am confident that she will bring a strong sense of direction and purpose to the role."
"Merck supports the mission of the ERC Fellows Program of researching, developing and advocating for strong ethical standards and practices," said Brevard. "It is an honor to be selected as chair of this important program and I look forward to helping the Fellows continue to make an impact through their work around cutting-edge ethics issues."
Brevard joined Merck, a global research-driven pharmaceutical company, in 1981 and was named vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer in June 2004. She leads Merck's global ethics program, compliance program and ombudsman program; chairs the company's Corporate Compliance Committee; and reports regularly to the chief executive officer, Executive Committee, and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
The Woolf Report on BAE:
Ethics in the UK Defense Industry
A special commission assigned to review the ethical culture inside British defense contractor BAE has released its report. The study, which has received international media attention, is a detailed examination of ethics programs and the importance of ethical culture in organizations. The Woolf Committee interviewed Patricia J. Harned Ph.D., president of the Ethics Resource Center, on September 25, 2007.
"High standards of ethical business conduct, and demonstrating such standards are being met, have become a requirement for companies in any sector wishing to succeed globally." – Woolf Committee Report
ERC's Latest National Workplace Ethics Survey
ERC's 2007 National Workplace Ethics Survey consists of three groundbreaking reports on employee perceptions of ethics in the business (NBES), government (NGES), and nonprofit (NNES) sectors. You may download the reports by following the links below.
Click Here to Download the 2007 NBES
Click Here to Download the 2007 NGES
Click Here to Download the 2007 NNES
