Integrity Management Program

Managing (Un)Acceptable Behaviour

The prevalence of unacceptable behaviour in the workplace is like the omni present bad weather. It pervades all aspects of business activity, and impacts, over and above the tangible effects of theft and fraud, employer/employee relations severely. Employees are assets and are responsible for generating wealth in it’s widest context. But employees may also pose the biggest single risk to the organisation. Management is about managing risk, including the risk posed by employees. Perceptions and attitude influence behaviour. Should an employee have the perception that he or she is ‘entitled’ to steal and that they can get away with theft, […]

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A Tale of Growing Integrity

Growing Integrity

A successful businessman was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different and called all the young executives in his company together. He said “It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.” The young executives were shocked as the boss continued. “I am going to give each one of you a seed today. This is one very SPECIAL seed. I want you to […]

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Pre-Employment Polygraph Testing

The Importance of Pre-Employment Polygraph Testing

Health insurance companies advocates for healthy lifestyles and happily provides advice, special offers, promotions and incentives to help and support their clients to live healthy lifestyles. Not to mention the call for lock and key when insuring our everyday items.  This is because they know that prevention is a lot more cost effective than cure. We believe they do make a great point . . . It is almost impossible to put an accurate figure on how much a company will save by implementing prudent and responsible security measures, in the same way that we can’t predict the overall savings […]

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