Just One Bad Apple

Part IV. Bribery: Adequate Procedures and Benefits

When you have completed this unit, you will be able to communicate to staff the importance of managing bribery, and analyse your own organisation for bribery risk. You will have a framework to manage attitudes to bribery and corruption within your organisation. The Bribery Act requires ‘Adequate Procedures’ are in place to prevent bribery. You will receive a model to enable you to identify adequate procedures that may be appropriate for your organisation. Finally, you will understand the benefits of taking action to prevent bribery and corruption.

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

• Narrated PowerPoint presentations with notes
• Running time 8 minutes
• Requires Adobe Flash player
• Single user license for 5 views

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

* Communicate to staff the importance of managing bribery
* Analyse your own organization

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

* Provide a framework to manage attitudes to bribery and corruption within an organisation
* Provide some pointers to adequate procedures
* Explain the benefits of taking action to prevent bribery and corruption.

STRUCTURE

1. Third parties agents, advisors, distributors
2. Corporate attitudes
3. Adequate procedures
4. Benefits: anti-corruption policy and process

About the Just One Bad Apple series

This is the fourth 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.

He is an individual member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel, an Associate of the Institute of Risk Management, a consultant on Middle East culture, speaks Arabic and a Court Assistant of the Company of World Traders. Interchange is a member of A|D|S, the trade association for the aerospace, defence and security industries and the Defence Business Ethics Forum.