Building Ethical Organisations With Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training

For many organisations, mandatory anti-bribery and corruption training can become a tedious box-ticking exercise. We believe that with the right training program, businesses can deliver compliance training that is flexible, engaging and focused on knowledge retention.

We are excited to launch the first of our Compliance Collections for Anti-Bribery and Corruption – an innovative new approach for keeping your training programmes fresh, year on year.

Our new Anti-Bribery and Corruption collection offers an engaging learning experience to employees, helping you build an ethical organisation with a culture of compliance.

The Collections Approach

For many organisations, some of the pain points of compliance training are engagement and retention. We have designed our Collections keeping this in mind. A collection offers a selection of learning interventions that enable organisations to roll out training over several years to keep training content fresh and engaging. This approach supports a multi-year training strategy, offering a flexible training program. It can also be adapted to roll out plans in response to evolving training needs and risks identified.

Our collections also deliver training in different learning styles – combining detailed study, adaptive learning, immersive learning and microlearning, along with some communications resources. The variety of learning formats is linked to higher rates of learner engagement and more effective reinforcing of key messaging.

What’s New?

Adaptive Learning

Adaptive learning courses are a new innovative approach to our longer, detailed study courses. Adaptive learning courses begin with a quiz to check the learner’s current knowledge and understanding of bribery and corruption and demonstrate their areas of competence and weakness. Based on the results of the quiz, the course is tailored to fit individual learning needs and close any gaps in knowledge.

Learners don’t need to repeat any topics which they are already familiar with, saving up to 45 minutes per employee in unnecessary study time!

Our existing Anti-Bribery and Corruption (Working Globally) course is now available in an adaptive learning format.

Core Take 5s

In addition to our existing courses, we have also added the following new microlearning courses as part of the Anti-Bribery and Corruption collection:

To learn more about our collections, visit the Anti-Bribery and Corruption topic page on our website.

Rolls-Royce embroiled in more corruption claims

Rolls-Royce embroiled in more corruption claims

Once again, Rolls-Royce is making news for all the wrong reasons. Allegations of bribery have swirled around the UK’s leading manufacturing multinational since 2012, and a recent BBC/Guardian investigation suggests that corrupt practices were an established business practice, used regularly to win lucrative contracts around the world.

The first wave of allegations surfaced in 2012, when former employee Dick Taylor, who had worked at Rolls-Royce for more than 30 years, raised the alarm after discovering suspicious activity in Indonesia. Taylor took early retirement and began publishing his allegations online. The Serious Fraud Office began investigating his claims. Specifically, Taylor alleges that Rolls-Royce paid Tommy Suharto, son of the former Indonesian president, £12m, and gave him a Rolls-Royce car, to secure an order for their aircraft engines.

Network of bribery

The latest round of allegations are made in a BBC/Guardian documentary. In Panorama: How Rolls-Royce Bribed Its Way Around the World, they claim that Rolls-Royce used a network of agents to win business in at least 12 different countries – in some cases using bribes to land lucrative contracts

Rolls-Royce have said little about the allegations: “Concerns about bribery and corruption involving intermediaries remain subject to investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and other authorities. We are fully cooperating with the authorities and we cannot comment on ongoing investigations.”

Corrupt connections

One claim is that Rolls-Royce paid millions of pounds to Sudhir Choudhrie, a businessman listed on India’s blacklist of people suspected of ‘corrupt or irregular’ practices. The report also alleges that Rolls-Royce engaged a network of agents to operate in Angola, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, India, China, Brazil, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

As if the SFO investigation was not enough bad news for Rolls-Royce, the German authorities announced in July that they planned to investigate alleged bribes in seven Asian countries.

A colonial legacy?

Jonathan Guthrie, writing in the Financial Times in May 2016, has a theory regarding the extraordinary allegations against Rolls-Royce: “British multinationals have traditionally behaved overseas in ways they would never have got away with in Croydon. Order-hungry local agents and corrupt officials were interlocking components in a mechanism oiled with backhanders. High-ticket procurement fraud is a colonial legacy…”

Anti-Bribery and Corruption training from VinciWorks

Doing business overseas can increase the risks posed by unfamiliar business cultures and working practices. VinciWorks offers online training to highlight the risks associated with contravening the Bribery Act 2010.

If you need to train your employees to recognise and safely report bribery and corruption, be sure to check out our global anti-bribery and corruption course. We also offer an Introduction to anti-bribery and corruption.