Ethical misconduct can shipwreck your company. Avoid scandal with MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER. Inside, you'll discover powerful insight into dealing with, and preventing, ethical disasters. You'll not only learn how to identify, illustrate, and define ethical misconduct; you'll get the expert's guide to preventing, mitigating, coping with, responding to, and surviving ethical disasters. In today's world, MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER is a must-read for every business leader.

Despite regulations, awareness, and debates, the days of being escorted from the corporate headquarters directly to jail are far from over. Taking the tack that dealing with and preventing "ethical misconduct disasters," or EMDs, is akin to dealing with natural disasters, the authors offer this practical guide for managers and executives. They advocate continuity planning to ensure that a firm's ethics and compliance programs are operating, examine the role of leadership in recognizing and avoiding misconduct, describe how to discern and assess a corporation's risk, show how to prevent EMDs through culture and training, and suggest how to survive media attention and recover when they do happen. They give an integrated model to standardize the measure of non-financial performance as an assessment of corporate integrity and describe the OCEG 2005 Benchmarking Study's key findings.
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Despite regulations, awareness, and debates, the days of being escorted from the corporate headquarters directly to jail are far from over. Taking the tack that dealing with and preventing "ethical misconduct disasters," or EMDs, is akin to dealing with natural disasters, the authors offer this practical guide for managers and executives. They advocate continuity planning to ensure that a firm's ethics and compliance programs are operating, examine the role of leadership in recognizing and avoiding misconduct, describe how to discern and assess a corporation's risk, show how to prevent EMDs through culture and training, and suggest how to survive media attention and recover when they do happen. They give an integrated model to standardize the measure of non-financial performance as an assessment of corporate integrity and describe the OCEG 2005 Benchmarking Study's key findings. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lynn Brewer is a former Enron executive and author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story. Since leaving Enron, Ms. Brewer has become an outspoken advocate for corporate integrity and has received numerous awards in recognition of her contributions to society. She is the Founder and CEO of The Integrity Institute which assesses and certifies the structural integrity at the request of organizations for the benefit of their stakeholders.Robert C. Chandler is Communication Division Chair and the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Communication at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is a nationally recognized scholarly researcher, corporate speakerandtrainer, and seminar leader in the fields of organizational crisis communication, including ethical misconduct disasters; crisis management team selection, training, and leadership; communication and conflict; intercultural and multicultural communication dimensions, including workforce diversity; as well as employee and organizational communication assessment and enhancement.O.C. Ferrell is the Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming and will join the Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico later thi

1. Overview. 2. The Personal Disasters Behind the Headlines. 3. The Role of Leadership in Recognizing and Avoiding Organizational Misconduct. 4. Discovering and Assessing a Corporation's Ethical Condition. 5. Preventing Ethical Corporate Disasters Through Planning. 6. Disaster Prevention Answers: Culture, Programs, and Training. 7. Answering Questions and Responding to Ethical Crises. 8. Recovering From an Ethical Misconduct Disaster.