New Zealand
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…
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,…
In 2022 employers are aware of their obligations to support whistleblowing at work and provide a safe, supportive environment free of fraud, harassment and other serious wrongdoing. The age when whistleblowers could be viewed as an unwelcome interruption to business-as-usual,…
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,…
Sometimes referred to as compliance software, reporting tech, enterprise ethics platforms, or even ‘online hotlines’ – digital whistleblowing solutions offer a way for organisations to manage the secure, anonymous, discreet reporting of ethical issues as they are encountered, and a…
New Zealand’s Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022 is now law. It increases protections for whistleblowers and extends the grounds under which protected disclosures can be made. The key changes in the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022…