In GIR – The Guide to Compliance, R&G Insights Lab Team Examines How Corporate Culture Drives Misconduct and Ethical Decision-Making

In a chapter of Global Investigations Review's The Guide to Compliance, Fifth Edition, Amanda Raad, co-head of the R&G Insights Lab, anti-corruption & international risk, and crisis management & investigations practices, Nitish Upadhyaya, director of behavioral insights, Katie Daniels, director of ethics, compliance, and insights, and litigation & enforcement associate Leah Dowd wrote about why corporate culture is now a core part of compliance effectiveness. The chapter, "Decoding corporate culture: the key to preventing misconduct and promoting ethical decision-making," sets out how organizational dynamics play a pivotal role in compliance.

The authors draw on behavioral science and cultural psychology to explain a framework (the "Four I's": ideas, institutions, interactions and individuals) which organizations can use as a lens to understand and help shape culture. The chapter also gives readers practical questions they can ask when incorporating culture considerations in their compliance program and describes data-driven steps that build ethics into hiring, training, incentives and leadership practices.