Book description
How good companies build a culture of integrity
In the present environment of corporate governance brought on by
high-profile executive scandals, this book makes a strong case for
encouraging business leaders to manage beyond compliance. Achieving
the bare minimum of compliance isn't enough. By making corporate
responsibility and integrity a strategic priority-rather than
something companies are forced to comply with-companies can realize
tangible financial returns and benefits. This book provides practical
advice, effective tools, and time-tested best practices for
approaching corporate integrity strategically and managing an
integrity program on a day-to-day basis.
There is a growing realization that compliance with the rules is only
a minimum standard of performance, and an increasing demand from
stakeholders at every level - shareholders, employees, customers along
the entire supply chain, consumers, advocacy groups, and the local
community at large - for more transparency and accountability from corporations.
But most businesses have little experience and few tools to deal with
the urgent demand to increase corporate responsibility. Corporate
Integrity provides practical tools and proven processes to manage
complex integrity dilemmas and support implementation:
- Explains how to create a culture of integrity in your
organization and how to motivate the appropriate corporate behaviors.
- Coverage includes: How to assess and measure integrity; how to
align corporate integrity commitments and actions; how to design
and implement dependable and strategic corporate accountability
systems and processes; how to develop corporate integrity
standards and report on them, and much more.
- Includes a wealth of practical business tools and best practices
that readers can apply to improve the level of corporate integrity
in their own company.
- Features three detailed case studies and numerous other examples
that illustrate corporate integrity dilemmas and solutions in action.
- Shows how managing corporate responsibility strategically and
proactively can go beyond a mere public relations exercise to
foster a corporate "win" in the court of popular opinion
and in the marketplace.
- Bridges the gaps between corporations, governments, employees,
interest groups, and consumers.
- Offers tools and solutions that apply to both for-profit
corporations and non-profit organizations.
Donna Kennedy-Glans's expertise is drawn from more than
twenty years of experience as a lawyer and business executive,
representing large international corporations struggling to manage
integrity dilemmas at head office and on the ground. Ms. Kennedy-Glans
has pioneered and implemented best practices in the field of business
integrity in over thirty countries. More recently, she advises the
voluntary sector on integrity, and bridges relationships between the
private and voluntary sectors (www. integritybridges. com). She is a
frequent speaker and workshop presenter at events and conferences
around the world.
Dr. Bob Schulz is a professor of strategic management at Haskayne
School of Business at the University of Calgary, where he has coached
business leaders and trained future business leaders for three
decades. Dr. Schulz's award-winning teaching/learning style focuses on
bridging academic theory and practical application. As a strategic
planning consultant, he has worked closely with senior leaders in both
the public and private sectors.
