The whistleblowing landscape has changed significantly over the last years. High profile cases have prompted new whistleblower protection regulations and legislation across the globe. But whistleblowing is no longer just a matter of legal interest. It has also become a societal issue. Names such as Edward Snowden, Julien Assange, or Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning have …
Whistleblowers are essential in exposing fraud, corruption and wrongdoing in our organisations and in our society as a whole. Prominent South African Whistleblowers such as Bianca Goodson, former CEO of Trillian, and Cynthia Stimpel, former group treasurer at SAA, have proven in the last few years that Whistleblowers play a crucial role in uncovering vital …
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The King IV Code on Corporate Governance strongly recommends organisations to have a whistleblowing mechanism in place to establish an ethical corporate culture. A whistleblowing mechanism can be in the form of an internal ethics hotline or an external whistleblowing facility. Anonymous reporting lines were first established to receive reports of fraud and theft and were often …
Liezl Groenewald, Senior Manager of Organizational Ethics Development at The Ethics Institute, has recently written a Whistleblowing Management Handbook, published by The Ethics Institute. The purpose of this handbook is to provide practical guidance to persons in ethics, governance and management positions who have some form of responsibility for implementing whistleblowing programmes, whistleblowing management systems, …
In order for organisations to prevent fraud, they first need to understand what drives people to committing fraud. Most employees do not accept a job with the intention of committing fraud. And, typically, fraudsters are fist-time offenders. Why then do seemingly good people behave badly? Donald Cressey, an American criminologist, proposed that people commit fraud …
By Mustafa Yusuf-Adebola, CFE, CPA, CIA Earlier this year, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina was accused of “multiple abuses and breaches of the Bank’s code of ethics.” As reported by a French newspaper, among other things, Adesina was accused of “violation of the code of conduct” and “hindrance to efficiency (…) affecting confidence in the …
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