The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics ― How to Protect Your Reputation, Enhance Your Performance and Realize Competitive Advantage

Compliance has become an increasingly important business function in any organization, moving beyond simply ensuring that legal requirements and regulations are met and boxes ticked, to demonstrating the significant competitive advantage and value that a robust, strategic compliance programme can bring to your business. The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics provides compliance officers, decision-makers and business professionals with the necessary practical guidance, skills and tools needed to develop and deliver a successful compliance and ethics programme that meets fundamental legal, political and social requirements.

The Business Guide to Effective Compliance and Ethics protects your organization, whether a large multinational or a small or medium-sized enterprise, from risk of fines, penalties and reputational damage. This book also looks with a much wider lens at the value-add that compliance can bring to organizations, including competitive advantage, career satisfaction, employee and customer loyalty and brand enhancement.

Andrew Hayward is Head of Compliance and Ethics at Subsea 7, London. He has worked in key compliance roles in major organizations for more than 20 years, including AstraZeneca and Balfour Beatty.

Tom Hickey is currently Legal Director of Strategic Projects at Subsea 7, having previously worked in London, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and New York for HESS Corporation and in Paris for Transocean Ltd.

Tony Osborn is a creative consultant, content developer and writer, working with leading corporations around the world.