New Zealand
Partners are in a class of their own. Sitting at the top of the corporate tree they are invariably looked up to. In general terms climbing to the top of any ladder requires attributes such as professionalism, expertise and competence…
Company culture can make or break a whistleblower, writes ethics expert and director of the Ethics Conversation, Jane Arnott MNZM… As a litmus test on leadership, culture provides the foundation from which a whistleblower may choose to follow internal processes and…
When companies acknowledge the need to increase the diversity of their workforce, they are failing to consider the conduct risks that may accrue, writes ethics expert and director of the Ethics Conversation, Jane Arnott MNZM… White spaces equal safe spaces.…
In this blog, we’ll explore why employees leave companies, the importance of strategic offboarding and the advantages of outsourcing exit interview duties to a third-party provider. After all, high employee turnover is costly and disruptive for any company. Why might…
Ethics expert and director of the Ethics Conversation, Jane Arnott weighs in on New Zealand’s uneasy relationship with speaking up. New Zealand doesn’t appear to have the appetite for a complaints culture. Neither do I. Complaining sits right up there…
As Auckland, Northland and other parts of New Zealand lay under siege of the weather gods, senior leadership teams of every major insurer in the country are undoubtedly preparing to either count the cost or count the claims. It is…
Why should organisations use external whistleblowing services to manage whistleblowing? Serious wrongdoing – including fraud, harassment, bullying and safety violations – poses a real risk to organisations of all sizes. When workplace wrongdoing goes unchecked, it undermines customer confidence, profitability,…
Surging reports of workplace incivility, employee ambivalence about reporting misconduct and a raft of new international whistleblower legislation, here’s our October round up of the latest developments and research in the world of ethics and compliance… New whistleblower legislation New…
Organisations must take all reasonable precautions to safeguard themselves and their employees from abuse, harassment, financial crime, and unethical behaviour. A whistleblowing hotline is a crucial piece of that puzzle. A whistleblowing hotline (aka an ethics helpline, fraud hotline, whistleblowing…
A national survey has revealed high rates of sexual harassment, racial harassment and bullying across New Zealand’s workplaces. Entitled “Experiences of Workplace Bullying and Harassment in Aotearoa New Zealand” and commissioned by Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, the Human Rights Commission,…