With a new year comes a perfect time evaluate your current compliance training and establish better goals for 2017. When it comes to compliance protocols, the start of a new year is best time to determine what it is that didn’t work well the previous year and make a concerted effort to ensure those efforts are improved upon this year. The best way to do that is by coming to terms with practices that are detrimental to sound compliance policies and ridding your organization of them.
Some of those poor practices are quite common across different organizations and some of the three most pressing ones that should be abandoned are the following:
1) Not Making Compliance An Important Issue
When top management is evaluating their organization’s performance and compliance is not something that is looked at, it’s a surefire way to allow compliance protocols to fail. Compliance shouldn’t be something that one department, such as Human Resources, is concerned about. It should be a topic that highest levels of management should think about as well because if it’s important to the CEO, than by default it becomes important to everyone else.
2) Not Holding Managers Accountable
The other thing organizations need to stop doing is allowing failed compliance procedures to pass without managers being held accountable to them. If an employee is not following established procedures, than that employee’s manager should be taken to task for not stressing the importance of following policies.
3) Not Putting Resources Into Compliance
One the other most important things that need to addressed is not putting company resources behind compliance. Wether it is hiring Compliance Officers or purchasing Compliance Services, an organization should feel compelled to invest in compliance.
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