The Brazilian Global Compact Network launched the “Caderno do Pacto - Anticorrupção”. The objective is to share the actions of the Pact to support companies in the adoption and maintenance of compliance and anti-corruption. For the head of Anticorruption and Transparency of the UN Global Compact, Olajobi Makinwa, corruption is the misuse of a trusted power, almost always motivated by greed. She states that the practice is not exclusive to the public authorities, as many companies instigate and participate in this type of misdemeanor. The notebook was developed by the thematic group Anticorruption of the Brazilian Network of the Global Compact, coordinated by Olga Pontes, from Braskem. "The material is innovative and intends to inform and provoke companies to create actions that combat any type of distortion of ethics", he says.
The “Notebook of the Pact - Anticorruption” devotes a complete chapter to the Anticorruption Law and presents a test to assess whether the company acts in a way that gives rise to illicit practices. Another chapter is dedicated to compliance policies and addresses the benefits of adopting them. The material serves both for companies that already adopt the practices to update themselves in the debate and for those that intend to create actions that curb corruption. Download here.
With the proliferation of corruption scandals involving private companies and public power in recent years, many companies are directing efforts and resources to create reinforce or restructure their compliance departments.
Attentive to the increasing demand in the market for professionals capable of structuring and leading compliance departments, some of the main business schools in the country already offer short courses and specialization programs in the subject.
Event with support and ETCO lecture shares good compliance practices in the healthcare segment
Heloisa Ribeiro, executive director of ETCO: competitive advantage (Photo: disclosure)
Share experiences and discuss ways to promote ethics in the health segment. These were the main objectives of the second edition of the Hospitals Compliance seminar, held in São Paulo on October 5th and 6th. The event featured lectures by compliance professionals from the most important hospitals in Brazil, such as Albert Einstein and Beneficência Portuguesa, and national and international specialists.
The highlights were the Americans Don Sinko, responsible for the Cleveland Clinic's integrity program, considered the most ethical in the world, and Tom Fox, one of the most acclaimed compliance consultants in the United States.
ETCO-Instituto Brasileiro de Ética Concorrencial was an official supporter of the event and also participated through a lecture by its executive director, Heloísa Ribeiro.
The event marked the official launch of the Ethics Award, which aims to recognize hospitals, laboratories and operators that are benchmarks in compliance and also reward government initiatives that contribute to transparency in public procurement and in the management of resources invested in health.
400 people missing
Don Sinko's talk showed why the Cleveland Clinic won the world's most ethical hospital award from the prestigious Ethisphere Institute. “We take our code of conduct very seriously,” he explained. "In 2014 alone, we conducted more than a thousand investigations and we currently have two former employees in federal prisons." He continued: “Hospitals employ people and people make mistakes. The compliance program helps to identify these errors and allows them to be corrected ”. Sinko said that Cleveland currently employs 40 people. "If 99% of them act correctly, it means that 400 people are making mistakes."
Consultant Tom Fox, on the other hand, spoke about one of the most famous healthcare corruption cases in the world, involving British pharmaceutical company GSK and the government of China. "Nobody wants to be caught by the Chinese justice system, which condemns 99,99% of the accused, and nobody wants to end up in a Chinese prison," said Tom Fox. "China has shown the world what the consequences are for those who corrupt and who it is corrupted. ” The scandal over bribery sales to the government resulted in a $ 483 million fine and caused huge damage to the British brand image.
Valuing ethical companies
In her lecture, the executive director of ETCO spoke about Ethics as a Competitive Differential. “Being ethical shouldn't be something we do to attract customers or to beat our competitors. You are ethical because you need to be, because it is the only acceptable way of doing things, ”said Heloísa Ribeiro. But she acknowledged that the image of an ethical company does represent a competitive advantage. “Of course, ethics make a lot of difference in the eyes of people. In the eyes of consumers. Customers. Of the patients. ”
The director of ETCO also praised the initiative to create the Ethics Award to value companies that invest in preventing misconduct. “Modern pedagogy teaches people to educate our children by giving great value to their good behavior: it is called positive education. I believe it works, and I believe it works not only with children, but like everyone else, so how good are the ethics awards. ”
The ETCO-Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition launched in November a video to draw the companies attention to the most important points of a program to prevent corruption. The video is part of the campaign that the Institute has been developing to help spread compliance in the country, which also involves supporting events and publishing a printed and digital guide on the topic.
The video, with just over 3 minutes, seeks to sensitize company managers to create a formal integrity program, emphasizing the aspects that are most important to their success, such as the creation of codes of ethics and conduct, the training of employees and the creation of a channel of information and complaints.
The video has been broadcast on corporate channels and can be used freely in training programs or to spread the importance of preventing corruption.
For more information, contact andrealopes@etco.org.br
The secretary of Transparency and Prevention of Corruption of the Office of the Comptroller General, Patrícia Audi, participated this Tuesday morning (17) at the opening table of the Fomenta Nacional, the largest event in the country directed to small businesses that participate or wish to participate in public bids. At the event, the secretary announced the launch of the booklet “Integrity for Small Business”, One of the products of the important partnership signed between CGU and Sebrae with the objective of bringing the topic of business integrity to Brazilian micro and small companies.
The secretary highlighted the importance of continuing the work carried out with Sebrae. "This booklet is the first step in a long journey to raise awareness of the strength that small businesses have to end corruption," he declared. The booklet aims to guide the small entrepreneur as to the importance of integrity in business relations, in addition to presenting suggestions for measures that can be adopted to structure a program. "The idea is to make micro and small business owners realize that investing in integrity is a good business, which can be done at low cost and without causing major changes in their daily lives," said the secretary.
In an article published last week in Revista Exame, executives from International Paper, a pulp and packaging plant, taught how to apply a code of ethics and compliance within companies. Using four steps, the executives created a specific area to follow the theme. They noted that, after a few months, the number of complaints and collaborations had tripled. The company introduced this new code of ethics for all of its 6 employees in Brazil.
Event that brings knowledge about the Anti-Corruption Law to the interior of the country was supported by ETCO
The city of Campinas, the second largest in São Paulo, received the Compliance Day on August 26th. The event, which takes lectures on the topic for cities outside the Rio-São Paulo axis, was held by Legal Ethics Compliance (LEC) and it was supported by ETCO-Brazilian Institute of Competition Ethics.
The lectures addressed topics such as the need to adapt compliance programs to Law 12.846 / 2013, known as the Anti-Corruption Law, the role of information security and the criminal risks involved in corrupt practices. “Many companies think that, because they do not have a direct commercial relationship with the government, they are free from risk,” says Alessandra Gonsales, a partner at the law firm WFaria and LEC. "This is a mistake, as every business has some kind of relationship with the public authorities."
Among the speakers at the Compliance Day in Campinas were representatives of companies, such as Harold Artur Bouillon, director of compliance at Bosch, and lawyers specialized in the subject, such as Emerson Siécola de Mello and Carlo Huberth Luchione. The public was composed of 30 people, mostly executives from the legal and compliance areas of companies in the region.
The next Compliance Day will be in Belo Horizonte (MG), on October 8th. Information and registration this site.
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