10 ways to measure the Tone at the Top

Management's tone at the top is a critical element of effective internal control and corporate compliance programmes. While tone at the top assessments may seem soft by the standards of most performance indicators for a compliance and ethics programme, compliance executives and boards may find such assessments invaluable in surfacing early warning signs of the potential for increased risk of wrong-doing in one or more units of a companys operations.

Increasingly, boards and senior executives are taking tone at the top seriously as a success factor in an overall improved approach to risk management. Compliance executives can play a very important role in assisting policy and decision makers in taking action to enhance tone at the top in a deliberate and systematic way - and then to measure effectiveness and progress ... READ MORE

Released by Corporate Compliance Insights - 4 June 2012