We hear a lot of news about the Covid-19 vaccines being approved these days and that they will “protect” those inoculated from the disease and make them “immune”. I am not an immunologist, but from a risk professional and behavioral perspective, what I see ahead of us is a serious phase of disillusionment after vaccination […]
I have been advocating for a long time now for changing the name of the game: leaving behind the misnomer “compliance management” and putting the focus on culture, ethics and risk or simply put: good decision making. To use an analogy from the world of sports, more specifically football (I mean the European version where […]
…Also, the “hour” will probably last more than 60 minutes… As the number of reported infections and deaths from the pandemic grow also in Turkey, people are facing a situation that disrupts their usual lifestyle and coping mechanisms much more deeply and thoroughly than any other crisis they have experienced before. As the Turkish Health […]
As the novel coronavirus pandemic (even though the WHO cannot yet bring itself to call it so) keeps developing very dynamically worldwide, we see that in a crisis where people’s, yes entire populations‘ health and ultimately also some people’s lives at stake, the impact on stock markets exceeds the „usual“ risks that organizations face and […]
In one of my earlier posts I have written about the “brand name” of the compliance department and why I think the words “ethics” or “integrity” should be part of it. (I meanwhile prefer “ethics”.) A few days ago I heard Christian Hunt from Human Risk talk about it in a recent episode of the […]
Orientation This post is the second in a series of posts on effective Ethics & Compliance in the context of Turkish culture. In the first part, I looked at the motivation for this analysis, and the cultural profile of Turkey in the Hofstede 6D model. In this second part, I will summarize the current requirements […]
This post, written in 2017, continues to receive a lot of attention. I have taken the topic up in more detail in a series of posts started in 2019. While I still stand behind what I have written here, this first post was based more on literature research, some personal experience and reflection. The 2019 […]
This post is not about mathematics or physics but about the behavior of people in the presence of rules and limits … in Turkey. When we discussed revising our Company’s expense limits to account for the currency devaluation, soaring inflation and resulting price increases in the hospitality sector in Turkey in the last months, I […]
