Compliance Management: A How-to Guide for Executives, Lawyers, and Other Compliance Professionals

Research increasingly supports the notion that ethical, compliant businesses see increased productivity across a range of measurements. This practical guide tells business professionals, business and law students, and other interested parties exactly how that goal can be achieved. The book covers an extensive range of ethics-compliant laws and regulations impacting businesses today and identifies critical factors for successful compliance programs. Going well beyond works that speak in general terms about compliance-based actions, this unique volume delves into details about specific regulatory issues and the steps that can be taken to mitigate risk.

The first half of the book shares general guidelines for creating or improving internal compliance and ethics programs. The second half identifies specific, high-risk regulatory areas; provides an overview of relevant laws; and sets forth best practices specific to the regulations discussed. By providing a simplified understanding of compliance with laws related to issues such as antitrust, international business, wages and labor, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and health care, the environment and more, the guide offers readers the tools necessary to improve an existing compliance program or create a new program where none has existed before.

Table of Contents

Section I: Importance and Foundations of Compliance Management
Chapter One: Why Doing the Right Thing Matters
Chapter Two: Dealing with Ethical Challenges
Chapter Three: Corporate Governance, Corporate Responsibility, and the Environment
Chapter Four: Risk Assessment and Structuring the Program
Chapter Five: Elements of a Compliance Program

Section II: Critical Success Factors for Compliance Management
Chapter Six: Oversight and a Culture of Compliance
Chapter Seven: Education and Training
Chapter Eight: Understanding Fraud and Other Wrongdoing
Chapter Nine: Identification, Investigation, and Enforcement
Chapter Ten: Compliance Program Evaluation

Section III: Mitigating Risk: A Brief on Compliance with Various Laws
Chapter Eleven: International Compliance
Chapter Twelve: Money Laundering
Chapter Thirteen: Health Care Concerns and Data Privacy
Chapter Fourteen: Fair Labor Standards Act
Chapter Fifteen: The Environmental Protection Act and Amnesty Provisions
Chapter Sixteen: Antitrust Compliance