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We monitor local and global developments in the fields of whistleblowing, governance, ethics, compliance and anti-corruption on an ongoing basis to bring you evidence-based recommendations for the effective management of your ethics hotline and the creation of a workplace culture of integrity.
Fraud detection Fraud. It’s something every business fears. While the tactics and tools they use may change over time, fraudsters are an ever-present threat to organisations of every size. The prevention and early detection of fraud can be the difference between success, survival and insolvency. As too many know, discovering fraud at the hands of a…
Best Practices The misuse of the word ‘malicious’ in whistleblowing laws and policies can misguide the handling of ‘axe to grind’ reports. When Dale Horne of Whistle Blowers Ethics Hotline asked me to share my thoughts on the subject of ‘malicious reporting’ by anonymous whistleblowers, I jumped at the chance. As an ethics consultant, I…
Best Practices You pride yourself on running an ethical organisation, you know that unethical conduct in your ranks is inevitable at some stage, and you would rather hear about it via your hotline than a hashtag. Regulators around the world are offering eye-watering financial incentives to insiders who lift the corporate veil on your inner dealings. Business…
Corruption In this post-Zondo Commission era, South African organisations are more aware than ever of the catastrophic reputation consequences that follow revelations of unethical business activity. Are you confident that no corruption is taking place within your organisation? Or between it and your suppliers, customers and other third parties? Whether you answered YES, NO, or…
The Duty to Inform When South Africa strengthened its Protected Disclosures Act of 2000 (‘the PDA’) in a wide-reaching Amendment Act gazetted in August 2017, it introduced an obligation on employers to provide ‘employee or worker’ whistleblowers with written feedback according to very specific time-frames. Now almost five years on, we still find that employers who have incorporated the…
New solutions With the 2022 World Wildlife Day call for the application of innovative measures for the protection of wildlife, we take a look at the growing and gratifying role that Whistle Blowers (Pty) Ltd is playing in national parks and game reserves on the African continent with their ethics hotline. It’s a challenge faced by…
ISO 37002 Responsible for receiving and responding to or managing whistleblowing reports in an organisation? Increasingly concerned that your whistleblower report handling will be found wanting? You’re not alone. How you handle a whistleblowing report can have significant implications for both your organisation and your whistleblowers. It’s a growing realisation that is keeping executives up…
Policy It takes as little as a strategic pause, a pointed look, perhaps a slight arch of the eyebrow, and the job is done. Your employees have the message loud and clear. Speak up about wrongdoing in the team, and they risk the wrath of their first-line leader. Yes. All your efforts at creating a…
Best Practices Achieving a 12th consecutive SAFELINE-EX certification based on our performance over the past 12 months means a great deal to the Whistle Blowers Ethics Hotline team. The challenging circumstances of 2020 put our investment in people and in advanced technology to the test – and there was no faltering in our delivery of a…
Uncategorized A striking feature of our client engagement during 2019 has been the increase in client enquiries about effective workplace investigations and how best to investigate the contents of their hotline reports. What’s driving heightened focus on internal misconduct investigations? This heightened focus on best practices in the undertaking of workplace investigations is in…
Best Practices Strengthen your whistleblowing management strategy in 2019 with the benefit of key insights that light the path for leaders committed to creating workplace cultures of ethics and integrity. In this article we summarize crucial outcomes from three sources published as 2018 was drawing to a close: two research studies and one case that gave…
Whistleblowing Why don’t people speak up at work? Someone must have known, but they failed to speak up. If they had, your financial and other losses may have been a lot less. Surely, in an age of hard-earned business reputations being ruined in a day, and in which one large fraud can be the last…
