DANIEL BLEEKER’S SUCCESS STORY Writing a success story about our business, in the midst of the pandemic, is a challenging exercise as many smaller companies are under severe pressure. But I hope to give the reader “food for thought” and ideas to survive during these difficult times, by telling my…
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In today`s competitive world, it is very difficult for businesses to survive, and even more difficult to stand out in the market. For this reason, many companies are devoting their time and investing their budgets on the ISO standards. Many companies prefer to do business with ISO certified organizations or hire…
As required by the Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) standard, investigating and dealing with bribery is a management responsibility which has a major impact on the credibility of senior management and the ABMS. Based on our years of professional experience in conducting internal investigations, this article proposes a framework for managers…
What methodologies do you use while teaching and preparing a curriculum? I try to find out more about the trainees’ needs, expectations, skills, and experience, and understand the relevance of the training for them. Depending on these, I can choose to use a collaborative method to get trainees take responsibilities…
I believe that teaching others is one of the biggest challenges that an individual may face. You have to really believe that what you say is correct, useful, and interesting, because there is always the possibility that not everyone is there to listen. I usually ask the students at the…
Recently, we have seen thousands of people protesting across Romania with the purpose of fighting corruption. As a severely damaging factor of our societies, corruption is very widespread across the countries of Eastern Europe. However, the second poorest EU state has been facing corruption problems for quite a long time…
The impact of globalization on organizations is increasing rapidly, no matter the size or industry. In today’s open economy, organizations are more exposed to bribery. Bribe means a payment or any other favor that is given to others to influence them to act in favor of the bribe givers. Different…
Over the last few years, we have seen more countries bring enforcement activities against companies that use bribery to win foreign contracts and grow their revenues. Some of the countries included in such activities are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK. Nevertheless, the crackdown on…
Fundamentally, we may address Bribery as one of the most harmful phenomena to the development of societies, economies, and commercial activities among others. Its spread has led to the formation of many legal frameworks, designated to prevent and tackle its practice in all types of organizations. As such, bribery refers…
Bribery refers to any offering, giving, accepting or promising advantage with any value or bribe in order to influence the decision, action or judgement of persons in charge of a duty. Any individual or organization that is involved in bribery means that they have accepted or gave something with the…