Ethics, Total Ethics Management Programmes

Being a certified Ethics Officer (Ethics Institute of South Africa), I offer a consulting service within businesses / organisations to implement leading edge, unique fraud awareness and prevention, and Total Ethics Management Programmes, an Integrity / Ethics Thermometer / Assessment, and ethics strategies and interventions, through tailor-made workshops and other identified interventions.
Successes achieved in this regard include fraud awareness interventions (within a leading financial institution) falling directly under my control, which interventions resulted in between 90% and 100% of fraud, theft, and dishonesty being prevented as a direct result of our teams fraud awareness programme.

This was achieved through the following (amongst other’s) being included in the financial institution, throughout the group: -
Carrying out business-wide Integrity / Ethics Thermometer surveys (and associated programmes to address ethical hot spots / danger points), a culture of integrity programme, monthly e-mail communications (including urgent warning e-mails re latest fraud trends), video’s, computer based training, performance agreements relating to fraud awareness and fraud prevention signed by every staff member, audit processes, compliance requirements, corporate governance requirements, employee appointment letters, training programmes, electronically monitored and measured fraud awareness champions, culture change programmes, ongoing presentations, group-wide ethics thermometer surveys, culture and values programmes, case studies and associated prevention tips, non-compliance to fraud awareness tracking and reporting, group wide tracking of fraud awareness results on related training, pre and post workshop tests tracked and reported on, high risk area fraud awareness presentations, loss prevention incentive scheme, fraud awareness intranet site, data casting, product and or service effectiveness surveys, and awareness brochures/calendars/mouse pads/stickers, tips and hints in in-house magazines.

Proactive Fraud, Crime, Dishonesty Prevention, Awareness & Communication Interventions Offering

A high level overview of best practice pro-active prevention and detection interventions I offer are listed below. Note – I am in well placed to audit existing programmes already in existence within business / organisation, as well as design and assist business / organisations implement any one or a combination of those listed below.

· An overview of why fraud, crime, corruption, and dishonesty flourishes;

· Awareness campaigns, why the need, what format they should take, and how should the associated initiatives and programme/s be maintained and measured;

· Pro-active awareness initiatives tracking and reporting system;

· Internal Audit auditing awareness initiatives and programmes;

· Internal & external audits;

· Compliance verifying that awareness initiatives and programmes are being complied with;

· Intranet sites;

· Prevention incentive scheme;

· Induction training and associated modules;

· Contract of employment code of ethics;

· Computer based training;

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