Human Resources
- Leadership Practices
- Fiscal Responsibility Issues
- Legal Compliance
- Employee Management Practices
Ethical Responsibility
- Code of ethics, training and reinforcement
- Human rights provisions
- Whistleblower protection
- Open disclosure
Environmental Responsibility
- Environmental practices and performance
- Occupational health and safety practices and performance
- Sustainable development principles
- Life cycle analysis
Fiscal Probity
- Accounting and Auditing
- Financial Attestation and Reporting
- Accuracy of Record Keeping
The mission of EthicsScan is to be the premier source of ethical and organizational assessment and education tools. Ethics
Assurance is the first integrated, web-based tool that allows businesses, government agencies, associations, and other types of organizations to assess their strengths and improve their weaknesses in the fields of good governance, economic integrity, ethical risk management, progressive human relations practices.
It also addresses sustainable environmental performance that results in no harm to people or the environment. Integrity is understood and reflected by various insights, cultural realities, organizational cultures, and changing legislation and regulation. Ethics
Assurance is a tool that can harmonize and organize an integrated, action-oriented appreciation of a company's ethical risks, liabilities and challenges.
EthicsAssurance benefits
- Wide scope covering all of governance, human resources, environment, social responsibility and general ethics
- Identifies and diagnoses best practices, not just a compliance tool
- Self-assessment that ensures confidentiality rather than an external audit tool
- Web-based for easy yet secure access
- Provides reports that highlight and assess your performance and enable you to compare your strengths and weaknesses to others in your business or organization sector
- Outlines opportunities, solutions and best practices, not just vulnerabilities or problem areas
- Enables you to remain current with changing practices, societal expectations and regulations
- For the CEO: annual benchmark reports on organization’s ethical strengths and weaknesses
- For the Board: identifies vulnerabilities and solutions in terms of both compliance and principles-based best practices
- For the Chief Ethics or Compliance Officer: monitors concerns from staff about suspicions, problems or dilemmas
- For Institutional Investors: defines companies that are integrating evolving good governance standards with corporate performance
- For the Internal Audit Team: identifies problem behaviours that exist even if they're not thought of as problems by the employee
- For Employees of Conscience: the employer allows for education and supports best practice
EthicsAssurance
- As Education Tool: Enriches information available to Ethics And Compliance Officers and the internal audit function. Identifies changing practices in terms of reputation and risk management, and responsible reporting.
- As Reporting Tool: Benchmark report for CEO. Organizational vulnerabilities report for the Board. Customized reports for approved executives and auditor.
- As Responsibility Tool: Integrates Governance, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Compliance and Ethics. Educates and motivates Employees who go on-line anonymously to use the instrument.
