London (UK), November 2015 - Towards Maturity has announced the findings of a new study sponsored by SAI Global, which found that despite an environment of record regulatory enforcements and personal liability for senior executives, most organisations are still applying a check-box approach to ethics and compliance training and failing to achieve the business goals they set out. This raises serious considerations for companies as they implement their programmes, with ethics and compliance failures continuing to dominate headlines.
To act as a catalyst for improvement, the study, "Excellence in Compliance Training: Creating a Culture of Compliance", investigated what Higher Achievers – the organisations largely achieving their goals – do differently than Lower Achievers, providing information for the industry about what approaches are delivering the best business results.
Key findings from the research include the following:
