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This brochure gives a brief introduction in how we can help you enhance the integrity at your organisation and reduce the costs of unethical behaviour.
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Integrity
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INTEGRITY
Contents
The costs of unethical behaviour 4
What makes an organisation ethical? 5
How we improve integrity 6
About HRD Group 7
Contact us for further information 8
For further inquiries, please feel free to contact us at:
T: 0031 (0)30 6911138
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The costs of unethical behaviour
Unethical behaviour of employees and managers poses a serious challenge to organisations
worldwide. Organisations are harmed by internal unethical behaviour by employees who
intentionally misuse their occupational position for personal gain, e.g. through the misappropriation
of organisational assets, corruption or financial statement fraud. Worldwide, and on average,
organisations are estimated to lose 5% of revenues to these types of intentional organisational
fraud. Consequently, this translates to an estimated global fraud loss of nearly $3.7 trillion in 2013.1
Furthermore, organisations suffer massively
from unethical behaviour of employees
towards external parties when this comes to
light. Think of the recent Volkswagen
Dieselgate, which could cost the German
automaker up to $34.5 billion, through
government and private fines and
settlements, recall expenses and the loss in
future sales.2 Another recent example is the
Libor scandal, in which employees of ten
international banks manipulated the Libor
interest rate for their own gain. Together
these banks were fined over $6.0 billion in
regard to this scandal.
1 ACFE. ‘Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse ‘. 2014 2 Forbes. ‘Dieselgate Scandal Could Cost Volkswagen Up To $35 Billion.’ 2015
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However, these figures are not a given: there are ways to enhance the integrity of your organisation
and thereby minimize the chances of your employees engaging in unethical conduct, together with
the accompanying costs of these behaviours. But how do you create an ethical organisation?
What makes an organisation ethical?
The behaviour of its employees are what makes an organisation ethical or less than ethical. Every
day employees have to make dozens of ethical decisions on their jobs. These vary greatly in their
magnitude, from deciding whether or not to take some pens and printing paper home for private
use, to deciding whether or not to correctly inform a client about the downside of a product, or to
grant a big assignment to one of your friends.
The outcome of these decisions result from a complex combination of individual personalities, the
organisation’s structures and procedures concerning ethical behaviour, and the organisational
culture and group dynamics. To effectively improve the integrity of your organisation all these three
factors need to be addressed. Simply implementing a code of conduct or strict regulations is
insufficient, nor is it effective to only fire all employees who have committed unethical practices.
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How we improve integrity
Our expertise
Given this, establishing an ethical organisation
is a complex task. HRD Group has a unique
expertise to help your organisation in this
mission. This expertise is based on our broad
experience with accomplishing behavioural
change in organisations, insights from recent
academic research, and collaborations with
several experts in this field. These include
Dr. Peter Diekman RA, the Dark Triad
personality team from the University of
Groningen, and Paul Conway (Ph.D.) from the
University of Cologne.
Our services
We use our expertise to help organisations such as yours to minimize the chances of unethical
behaviour in multiple ways.
By developing a tailor-made coherent integrity trajectory in which we identify the risks of unethical
behaviour that are specific to your organisation, and develop ways to address these effectively.
By offering several services to aid you in the implementation of your existing integrity policy, for
instance by conducting integrity assessments for those employees in key positions or by providing
an organizational scan to identify the risks within your organisation.
By developing and providing training programmes for those professionals in your organisation who
are concerned with integrity, such as compliance officers.
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About HRD Group
Developing people, growing organisations
To realise growth for your organisation you need people that excel at their expertise and co-jointly
work towards achieving your organisations’ goals. The best people that have the top notch
knowledge required in your industry. The best people who also help each other to succeed, improve
upon each other’s ideas, give the best they have and stay with you for a substantial duration. These
people are engaged, loyal and productive because they see the importance of their personal
contribution to achieving your goals, they feel appreciated and at home. They constantly develop
and stay ‘professional fit’. With a staff like this your organisation is up to facing all challenges it is
confronted with, it’s agile and can cope with change, it’s innovative and can cause change, it excels
in what it does and can compete with the best breed of existing and new competitors.
In order to increase your employee engagement and productivity we connect people with your
organisational goals. We empower you to attract, retain and develop your talent by delivering tailor
made and evidence based change programmes, trainings and assessments. In any location, in any
country of your choice. Resulting in a workplace that people love.
Quality insurance
Consultants of HRD Group have a background in psychology and sociology.
We use this know-how to ensure the impact and effectiveness of our services, both online and
offline. To continually improve our know-how, trainers and coaches are members of EuroPsy, its
Dutch equivalent NIP, and other associations that are appropriate to their field of expertise.
100% customer satisfaction
Furthermore we ask a third party (Cedeo) to test our customer
satisfaction bi-annually. They have certified our customer satisfaction
to be at the maximal obtainable score of 100%.
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HRD Group
Dolderseweg 2D
3712 BP Huis ter Heide,
The Netherlands
www.hrd-group.com
T 0031 30 6911138
Contact us for further information
Are you interested in, or do you have questions about, our integrity trajectories or other services?
Please feel free to contact us at +31 (0)30 69 111 38, or send an email to [email protected].
Further information about our services are also available at our website www.hrd-group.com.
