Delivered by Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos (University of Cambridge Lecturer in Strategy), Understanding and Preventing Corporate Corruption is a three-day programme designed to tackle the impact corporate corruption has on organisations and economies.
On why it is so important to understand corporate corruption, Dr Zyglidopoulos says: “Corruption, as in the abuse of a public position of trust for private benefit, is a phenomenon that has been with us for centuries. However, when this phenomenon becomes spread in business organisations, given their power, the damage to society can be very extensive as the recent cases of ENRON and Arthur Andersen have painfully shown.”
The programme aims to provide participants with the latest research evidence on corporate corruption as well as applied knowledge from successful anti-corruption campaigns.
On the benefits of the programme and its application back to the organisation, Dr Zyglidopoulos goes on to say: “Participants will be able to understand the underlying social and psychological factors that make corruption possible and be vigilant so that they do not get ‘carried away’ into corrupt practices. They will be able to better understand the international legal frameworks that have evolved to deal with corruption in the last decade and will also be introduced to tools and ways to improve and/or build effective compliance systems within their companies.
Given that participants will understand the human (social and psychological) and the legal requirements of compliance systems, they will be able to better implement and/or design compliance systems for their companies. Participants, in other words, should be able to more effectively prevent corruption from taking hold of their company.”
The Understanding and Preventing Corporate Corruption programme runs 25-27 April 2012.
To find out more, visit: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/execed/open/understandingcorruption.html