Do you know which factors heighten the risk of unethical conduct in your company?

Do you have a means to measure progress in closing the gaps? A successful ethics program looks at the risks that impact the behavior and attitudes of employees and managers towards ethics and compliance.

Web-Based Assessment
Working Values has developed two web-based assessment tools to help organizations best determine their integrity risk areas:

• Ethics Risk Assessment™ — Working Values and the Metrus Group have developed the Ethics Risk Assessment, a web-based assessment tool to assess employee attitudes and awareness of critical integrity and antifraud risks as part of a complete ethics program evaluation.
• Culture Risk Assessment™ — A web-based assessment that provides an objective snapshot of the values that underlies employee behavior, making it possible to translate qualitative data into quantitative data. The Culture Risk Assessment provides a base-line measurement instrument for monitoring changes in the organizational culture as well as a foundation to proscribe behavioral change that will influence the culture.

Field Work
Through focus groups, surveys and interviews, we evaluate each integrity risk area to determine the level of vulnerability and develop an analysis for the organization to use in setting annual goals, and in designing a customized action plan.

• We help clients focus on those barriers that keep an organization and its people from doing the right things.
• Integrity risks are approached as a complement to legal risks (e.g. compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, insider trading, sexual harassment).
• We assess the four key risk areas and establish goals in each category to demonstrate how well the organization is meeting the expectations of stakeholders and regulators. Those risk areas are:


• INDIVIDUAL AWARENESS (the individual's understanding of the organization's standards, values and commitment to integrity);
• CORPORATE CULTURE (the environmental factors that shape individual behaviors);
• Role of MANAGERS AND LEADERSHIP (the behavior of managers in modeling behavior consistent with the organization's integrity);
• The SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES established by the organization to support its integrity-based decisions and actions).

As a result, we can deliver information to help you shape policy, and give you the answers to questions about your company, such as:

• Do individuals feel personally accountable?
• Does the culture support the standards?
• Are your leaders good role models?
• Does your organization have sufficient systems in place to support the process?