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Corporate culture
Find out more about corporate culture or 'the tone at the top' as it also known.
In this section
Articles and features
A guide to company culture
The culture where you work is key to all, master it now
International Technical Updates July 2021
Our roundup of regulatory news.
A culture assessment can only be useful
Corporate culture is often forgotten in the rush to determine internal rules. If we are to understand the big questions around trust in business, shouldn’t culture metrics be in place?
Guidance and reports
Sharpening the focus on corporate fraud: an audit committee perspective
This is the second of two interview-based publications about fraud. In this report, the Audit and Assurance Faculty considers audit committee perspectives on corporate fraud and how it can be better prevented and detected.
How whistleblowing helps companies
The latest ICAEW Connect and Reflect report shows how whistleblowing can help companies and provides an action plan for boards. We explore the five benefits of whistleblowing for companies and then outline the five-point action plan that boards can implement in order to maintain their systems of checks and balances.
Webinars and other recordings
How a board should balance major strategic issues with staff retention and wellbeing
In the second of two Insights In Focus special episodes an experienced panel discuss a dilemma facing a fictional UK-based food manufacturer.
How a board should maintain the right culture during periods of fast growth
In the first of two Insights In Focus special episodes an experienced panel discuss a dilemma facing a fictional software company.
The importance of a whistleblowing framework and how to respond when an employee raises a concern
This webinar discusses the importance of an effective whistleblowing framework, along with factors to consider when establishing such a framework and responding to concerns raised by employees.
Climate change and corporate value: what companies really think
Hear what company executives could be doing now to ensure the future resilience of business against climate risk.
Purpose – how has a corporation’s purpose changed?
Professor Alex Edmans, London Business School, explored issues around profit, purpose and how they relate to responsible capitalism.
Whistleblowing and fraud
Ian Foxley, whistleblower and Dino Bossi, Addveritas share their views on the benefits of whistleblowing and the system that should be in place to support people.
Managing social media to avoid reputational damage
Jennifer Janson, Six Degrees and Jamie Harley, PwC discuss the potential impact of social media on reputation, how best to manage this risk and use social media to the benefit of the organisation.
Trust in business
Podcast: Hear some insights from a range of different perspectives on this important subject. Learn about the importance of being trustworthy, worker representation at the John Lewis Partnership, the role of the media and the rebuilding of trust by the banks since 2008.
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eBooks
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Driven to the brink: why corporate governance, board leadership and culture matter
A collection of stories about how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value.
Investor relations
Guide to the duties of modern finance directors. Chapter 16 deals with investor relations, including: shareholder engagement; inside information; corporate ethics and corporate culture and corporate social responsibility.
Strategies for improving organisational effectiveness
This title provides guidance on combining human resource management with business strategy. This chapter looks at strategies that develop processes that support the achievement of business goals and a positive culture.
Responsible leadership
An introduction to business ethics.
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Industry press
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'Quiet quitting' and 'quiet thriving' - Flourishing in the modern organisation
A look at what employers and employees can do to create healthier organization cultures - so that organizations and employees can flourish in today’s challenging economic times. Drawing upon research about the modern organization, the authors identify ten recommendations to help organizations create healthier and thriving work cultures. They also identify ten action steps which employees can proactively take to help themselves and their organizations to thrive.
The silent risk - Never take 'K(no)w' for an answer! Embracing emergent conversations for change and innovation in business meetings
Dr. Robert H. Lengel discusses a way to host strategic conversations bringing stakeholders together in pursuit of changing organizational culture. He describes a method he has developed called 'conversation walls', which involves collating anonymous phrases used by staff in both their public and private conversations. This aims to reveal pent-up negativity and emotions which are not given space for expression in traditional business meetings.
Innovation-driven culture
Developing a culture that prioritizes innovation is the key to creating long-term sustainable value, say the authors. They use three companies as case studies - Reading Bakery Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and the LEGO Group.
Company culture and team creativity
Companies that actively communicate shared core values are in a better position to achieve high creativity within project teams. The authors suggest designing projects so that team members have highly interdependent tasks but teams as a whole also have the ability to self-manage, without a team manager restricting their creative autonomy.
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Useful links
Tone at the Top
Bimonthly quick-read newsletter from the Institute of Internal Auditors, aimed at executive management, boards of directors and audit committees. Provides information on how to establish the appropriate tone at the top.
Corporate Governance Review 2020
Grant Thornton's review of the annual reports of 297 of the UK’s FTSE 350 companies with years ending between April 2019 and April 2020. The section on culture looks at board leadership and company purpose, 'the Tone from the top' and measuring culture . A toolkit for culture reporting is included.
Culture and governance
FCA page on culture in governance in the financial services industry. Includes the discussion paper Transforming culture in financials services
Governing culture: risk & opportunity
The guide highlights the difference between the role of the board and the role of the executive team in leading and managing culture, looks at questions that boards might ask of themselves and of their executive and offers a ‘roadmap’ to help boards assess their approach is to governing culture.
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