Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub Are employees where you work suffering from ethical burnout? What is it exactly and how can you tell? To understand more we spoke with Richard Bistrong (LinkedIn), newsletter author and CEO off Frontline Antibribery, who co-authored with Dina Denham Smith and Ron Carucci an article for  Harvard Business Review, “4 Warning Signs of Ethical Burnout on Your Team.” Ethical burnout, as they defined it, is a state in which commercial goals and demands are so overwhelming that workers no longer have the time or energy to consider compliance and ethical obligations. They simply want to get the job done and over with any way that they can. It has a number of potential roots including: Increased commercial pressures and targets, including goals gone wild Survival mode thinking Decision-making overload and speed Envy of unhealthy status symbols So what should compliance teams do to prevent ethical burnout? First, be aware of when the stress levels are high and any of these potential root