Tips for Compliance and Ethics Program Incentives

Since incentives were first introduced in the Sentencing Guidelines there has been little guidance about what exactly make up incentives for compliance. It’s also probably no surprise that one of the most underdeveloped parts of many compliance and ethics programs is the application of incentives. In this episode Eric talks about some practical things organizations can do to consider incentives and talks about different ways that organizations have addressed incentives in the past and what probably has worked and what may not be so effective. Eric provides some advice on ways to approach the incentive issues and discuss the implementation of incentives with the applicable internal audience. Finally, Eric provides some practical advice for organizations on how to proceed in considering incentives past, present and future.