On-Line Anti-Corruption Training Module

• Country corruption:  If you work in a country where corruption is part of every day life.

• Corporate corruption:  If you work in an organisation where corruption is part of the corporate culture.  

• Corrupting pressures:  If you work in an organisation where there are demanding commercial pressures – such as high profit or cash flow targets, or early completion dates or restrictive contract claims clauses - which tempt officers and employees to resort to bribery and/or fraud in order to meet targets or have claims approved, and where the corporate management turns a blind eye to this corruption. 

• Corrupting incentives:  If you work in an organisation where large bonuses and/or promotion prospects are closely tied to contractual success or profits so that officers and employees are tempted to use bribery and/or fraud to earn bonuses and promotion, and where it may be tacit company policy to condone this sort of corrupt behaviour in order to increase profits.

• Lack of adequate corporate controls:  If you work in an organisation where there are inadequate anti-corruption controls so it is possible to take or give bribes and to commit fraud without being detected, or it is possible to slip into bad practices – such as giving or accepting lavish entertainment – which then lead to corruption. 

• Lack of adequate salaries:  If you work in an organisation where the salaries are very low and where there is opportunity to supplement those salaries through corruption.

• Lack of knowledge:   If you and your colleagues are insufficiently aware of those acts that are corrupt and that you personally could incur criminal liability and severe criminal penalties.