Just One Bad Apple

Part I. Bribery: Definitions, Impact and Focus

When you have completed this unit, you will understand what bribery is, and how it presents itself using real business cases. After considering your own attitude to corruption and how it is defined, you will learn how corruption risk spreads within an organisation. The impact of bribery and corruption on your organisation is explained, and links with criminal networks an terrorism are explored.

This unit requires no prior knowledge of bribery and corruption within organisations, or the Bribery Act.

• Narrated PowerPoint presentations with notes
• Running time 11 minutes
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AUDIENCE

Professionals, managers, directors and consultants who need to know about how the Bribery Act 2010 could affect their organization, and how to minimise the risks.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

* Understand what bribery is
* Give real world examples of bribery

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

* Reflect on corrupt behaviour
* Provide definitions of bribery and corruption
* Show the spread of corruption risk
* Explain the impact of bribery and corruption on the organization
* Show how bribery and corruption are related to criminal activity and terrorism

STRUCTURE

1. Just bending the rules?
2. Some definitions 1
3. But we thought we had compliance?
4. Corruption radar screen
5. 24/7…360° risk
6. Bribery and corruption impact
7. Criminal and terrorist risk

About the Just One Bad Apple series

This is the first of four short units for managers, professionals and consultants who wish to minimise the risk of corruption and bribery within their organisations, and ensure compliance with the Bribery Act. The course of four units explains the risks of bribery and what your organisation can do to minimise them. Completing the course demonstrates that your organisation is committed to preventing bribery and corruption, and that you personally understand the risks and how to minimise them. 

About the Author, John Burbidge-King

John Burbidge-King WB, MCMI is founder and CEO of Interchange Solutions, specialists in business reputation and risk management. 

Operational service in the Royal Marines included Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, the Far East and Northern Ireland; he had senior roles gaining experience in a challenging global business environment, ranging from banking electronics, biometrics to security printing. 

He was an active participant of the World Economic Forum and encouraged the debate on preventing the counterfeiting of goods (paper discussed at DavoS 2004) and on anti-corruption.

John has interacted with all levels of government and companies around the world; lived in the Middle and Far East and California.

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