Just One Bad Apple Part III

Just One Bad Apple

Part III. Bribery: Risk Behaviours and Discovery

When you have completed this unit, you will understand how and where bribery can occur, and be able to develop policies to manage the risk of bribery taking place within your organisation. You will gain insight into how corrupt behaviour works, and how it is detected by enforcement agencies. You will know what happens when bribery is detected, and learn how to manage an enforcement raid in the event bribery is detected within your organisation. 

This unit assumes that you have already completed Parts I and II.

• Narrated PowerPoint presentations with notes
• Running time 21 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

* Show how and where bribery can occur.
* Develop policies to manage the risk of bribery

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

* Describe how corrupt behaviour works
* Explain how bribery is detected
* Explain what happens when bribery is detected
* Provide advice on how to handle an enforcement raid

STRUCTURE

1. But we thought we had compliance?
2. People bribe ~ not companies
3. 80/20 rule
4. Broad risk types
5. Risk behaviour
6. They won’t get me!
7. Serious fraud office cooperation
8. Global village
9. Discovery
10. Enforcement radar screen
11. Follow the money ~ scenario
12. Follow the money
13. Routes to evidence
14. Enforcement raid
15. Searched and seized
16. Management: “it’s going to get out “
17. Bridge too far

About the Just One Bad Apple series

This is the third 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.