For both companies and individuals, several legal developments in the United States and the EU presage greater risks of prosecution and more serious penalties for non-compliance with anti-corruption rules are on the way. Currently there are companion bills in Congress that would provide whistleblower protection to employees who divulge credible, material information about FCPA violations to federal authorities. If enacted, this amendment to FCPA legislation could open the litigation floodgates.
Since the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation was passed in 2002, many information technology workers have faced significant changes in their jobs because of SOX compliance requirements. Organizations hoping to motivate and retain IT workers need to understand the experience of being an IT worker dealing with SOX compliance issues and responsibilities. This research contains an investigation of the question, "What is the experience of IT workers with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance responsibilities?" This phenomenological study revealed several prominent positive and negative themes in the experiences of the IT workers within a large public organization.
The literature suggests that compliance behaviors are important in sustaining supply chain relationships when dealing with supply disruptions. This study empirically examines the role of agent-level factors on compliance in supply chain relationships, departing from previous research that focused mainly on firm-level factors. We find that after controlling for dependence and relational norms, some dimensions of agent cooperativeness and assertiveness are still significantly related to compliance. These findings suggest that certain characteristics of decision-making agents do matter in supply chain relationship dynamics, and encourage further research on the role of agent-level factors in affecting various aspects of supply chain phenomenon.
Over the past year, the low-income housing tax credit program has undergone a notable transformation. State agencies have been laboring to interpret the new provisions, and have been issuing policy memos to respond to the changes. On the compliance side, some of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HEAR) provisions can present difficulties or confusion for site managers and staff who do not know about or do not fully understand just what all of these changes entail. Currently, projects placed in service during 2006, 2007, or 2008, and which are located in a non-metropolitan area within the Gulf Opportunity Zone are able to use the greater of the median gross income standard or the national non-metropolitan gross income standard. For 9 percent LIHTC sites located in certain ru...
This is where mutual trust and communication, again, come into play, [Leslie Kenne] said. "Really, what you want when it's all over is for the company to have a robust, compliance program ... and for the government to be able to trust that company to stay in compliance," she said. "That's a win-win, and you don't win-win by hiding things from each other.
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