{"id":11459,"date":"2011-10-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/anti-bribery-training-is-key\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:13:00","slug":"anti-bribery-training-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/anti-bribery-training-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Bribery Training Is Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBy Matt Plass, Interactive Services\u2019 Chief Learning Officer<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2007, there were 38 prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Know how many prosecutions we saw in 2010? Almost double the 2007 figures with 74 prosecutions in 2010\u2014not including 150 investigations that are still open.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese stats indicate that Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer wasn\u2019t joking in November 2010 when he said, \u201cThe Department\u2019s enforcement of the FCPA is aggressive, and it\u2019s on the rise\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of our specialties at Interactive Services is the creation of online anti-bribery training courses. They are an annual requirement for most large organizations and the core message rarely changes: Be aware, know your policy, watch for red flags, and speak up!<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, considering your average employee takes an anti-bribery course once a year, how do we ensure this hot topic receives the same level of attention from your busy employee as it currently receives from legislators?<\/p>\n

\n\t1. Challenge misconceptions<\/strong>. <\/strong>Bribery is back-handing a brown envelope stuffed with cash, right?And who actually does<\/em>that? Not me! The most common misconception around bribery legislation is, \u201cI\u2019m not a criminal so it doesn\u2019t concern me.\u201d But of course, anti-bribery legislation covers any gift or advantage given\u2014even something as small as a free branded pen can fall foul of legislation and policy. Your online FCPA training, however good, is unlikely to prevent a criminal element from intentionally bribing an official or business contact. Instead, you should be thinking about the unsuspecting individual who doesn\u2019t consider the potential impact, to themselves and to the organization, of giving away those free baseball tickets.<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Think global.<\/strong> Although the FCPA is U.S. legislation, it applies to all<\/em>employees of a U.S. company regardless of their location. You\u2019ll hear people say, \u201cI\u2019m half way around the world in a country where greasing the wheels is standard business practice. FCPA is not aimed at me.\u201d They couldn\u2019t be more wrong.<\/p>\n

\n\tBear in mind also that your organization\u2019s anti-bribery policy probably goes further<\/em>than the legislation in proscribing gifts or advantage. Shout this from the rooftops, \u201cWe have a zero-tolerance global approach to bribery: We take no chances, we protect the individual, and the firm.\u201d AstraZeneca did this well with the announcement<\/a> that it is scrapping payments for doctors to attend international medical congresses.<\/p>\n

\n\t3. Carrot? Stick? Something else?<\/strong> Anti-bribery messages may be similar year-in\/year-out but your training needn\u2019t be. Think about your audience and the misconceptions they may have. Consider any recent incidents of good or bad practices in your organization or in the media at large. Then ask what approach you should take in the training. Scare the learner with potential consequence of non-compliance. Celebrate good practice with some \u201cnear-miss\u201d examples. Use video to show how it should or shouldn\u2019t be done. Drop the learner into a tricky situation and have them negotiate their way out, keeping to the right side of anti-bribery legislation.<\/p>\n

\n\tRemember, prosecutions are on the rise, and this is not box-ticking compliance. There is no \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach when it comes to FCPA training. The more engaging and interesting the training, the more people will reflect upon, and realign, their own behavior.<\/p>\n

\n\t4. Capitalize on the mistakes of others. <\/strong>Granted, this one is a little ghoulish. But when creating anti-bribery training, you should make use of the many rich examples from real life. If a firm makes bad headlines with a $78 million fine from a bribery case, that\u2019s interesting to the learner. If an individual within that firm lost their job, their reputation, their liberty… that\u2019s fascinating stuff\u2014morbidly fascinating perhaps, but it guarantees learner engagement. So make good use of what\u2019s already out there and don\u2019t be afraid to use examples from within your own firm. The closer a training course is to my<\/em>reality, the more I\u2019ll engage.<\/p>\n

\n\tLastly, don\u2019t assume that because this is legislation and compliance your training should be all doom and gloom, jail and fines. There are opportunities here to highlight exemplar performers and focus on the \u201cright\u201d way to do things. Your learners should leave the training with one message clear above all others: \u201cI am a part of ensuring that we maintain our zero- tolerance approach to bribery: I take no chances; I protect myself and the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMatt Plass has been Interactive Services\u2019 Chief Learning Officer for more than four years and is based in the UK. Plass has been in the training and education industry for 10 years, and has a background in Adult Learning and Instructional Design. He leads and oversees all instructional design and concept development at Interactive Services. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.InteractiveServices.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Matt Plass, Interactive Services\u2019 Chief Learning Officer<\/p>\n

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