compliance

Examples of compliance in the following topics:

• Training Ethical Decision Making

  • Organizations use compliance and ethics programs to demonstrate and reinforce their commitment to ethical practices.
  • Many organizations implement compliance and ethics programs to help guide the decision making and behavior of employees.
  • Compliance with regulatory requirements and the organization's own policies are a critical component of effective risk management.
  • Monitoring and maintaining compliance is not just to keep the regulators happy—it is one of the most important ways for an organization to maintain its ethical health, support its long-term prosperity, and preserve and promote its values.
  • The presence of compliance and ethics programs demonstrates an organization's commitment to creating a work environment and corporate culture that values doing what is right, good, and just.

• Key Behaviors of Transactional Leaders

  • Transactional leaders focus on performance, promote success with rewards and punishments, and maintain compliance with organizational norms.
  • Transactional leaders seek to maintain compliance within existing goals and expectations and the current organizational culture.

• A Leader's Influence

  • In 1958, Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three broad varieties of social influence: compliance, identification, and internalization.
  • Compliance involves people behaving the way others expect them to whether they agree with doing so or not.
  • Obeying the instructions of a crossing guard or an authority figure is an example of compliance.
  • For example, compliance is a means of maintaining order in the workplace, such as when employees are expected to follow the rules set by their supervisors.

• Transactional Versus Transformational Leaders

  • Transactional leadership promotes compliance with existing organizational goals and performance expectations through supervision and the use of rewards and punishments.

• Codes of Conduct

  • As part of comprehensive compliance and ethics programs, many companies formulate policies pertaining to the ethical conduct of employees.

• Servant Leadership

  • Persuasion: Servant leaders do not take advantage of their power and status by coercing compliance; they try to influence others through reason.

• The Importance of Accountability

  • Managers are responsible for the quality and timeliness of program performance, for increasing productivity, for controlling costs and mitigating adverse aspects of agency operations, and for assuring that programs are managed with integrity and in compliance with applicable law.
  • Managers are responsible for the quality and timeliness of program performance, increasing productivity, controlling costs and mitigating adverse aspects of agency operations, and assuring that programs are managed with integrity and in compliance with applicable law.

• The Mission of Human Resource Management

  • It also ensures compliance with employment and labor laws, which differ by geography, and often oversees health, safety, and security.

• Moral Principles in Management

  • To be viewed by the public as having high moral standards, many companies have created a position called the corporate ethics officer or the corporate compliance officer.

• The Evolution of Labor Relations

  • HR professionals need to closely monitor this evolution, both to understand the most recent hiring practices and to ensure compliance (if applicable) with union rules and regulations.