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This is the first in a series of six posts on compliance issues with various online platforms. Today’s post is about YouTube. Next Tuesday’s post will be about Facebook. The third post in the series, on March 22, will discuss Instagram. The fourth post in the series, on March 29, will focus on Twitter. The fifth post, on April 5, will be about Snapchat. On April 12, the sixth and final post in the series will discuss Reddit.
The video hosting and sharing service YouTube was created in 2005 and is now owned by Google. YouTube contains content from both individuals as well as media corporation partners. This content is extremely diverse, ranging from short clips to entire television shows and films as well as music videos, video blogs, live streams, and educational presentations. YouTube also makes use of the advertising program Google AdSense and includes targeted ads on its content; most of the videos on YouTube are free to view but some ad content will appear before, during, and/or after the video plays.
This is the third in a series of five posts on the topic of integrity of game play. The first post discussed the impact of various types of player misconduct on sportsmanship and game outcomes. Last week’s post debated whether tanking can be ethical and looked at numerous examples of tanking across different sports to compare how it happens and what its effect is. Today’s post is about referee bias and how it affects games, players, and teams. The fourth post, on March 14, will be about organizational cheating operations by teams. The fifth post and the last in the series, on March 21, will be about unethical leadership of coaches.
Teams and their fans often accuse referees of being biased or making unfair calls. Whenever players or spectators disagree with the call made or penalty assessed – which, for those on the wrong side of the outcome of the decision, is not all that rare – bias is often suspected or assumed.
This is the third in a series of four posts on insights for compliance officers from different fields of study. The first post in the series was about lessons from psychology regarding motivation and choice, from prominent figures such as Viktor Frankl and Barry Schwartz. Last week’s post discussed insights from self-development and coaching, including the works of people like Brene Brown and Byron Katie. Today’s will be about insights from behavioral economics. The fourth and final post in this series, on March 13, will focus on the application of theories of business management theories to corporate compliance programs.
Behavioral economics is a multi-disciplinary field of academic study which integrates themes from psychology, sociology, and neurology, among others, to analyze and predict economic decisions and markets behavior of individuals. Given that behavioral economics shares so much theoretical inspiration with other areas and covers such a wide array of human behavior, it is naturally quite insightful for compliance officers. Like compliance, behavioral economics focuses heavily on factors to decision-making and conduct. Behavioral economics also takes great interest in risk tolerance and assessment, the management of which is also important for compliance.
This is the second in a series of five posts suggesting best practices for implementing corporate cultural change. For an overview of all the tips on this subject, check out this preview post. Last week’s post discussed tone and conduct at the top. Today’s post is about enforcement. Next Monday’s post, on March 12, will discuss effective policies. The fourth post in the series, on March 19, will focus on procedures to complement those policies. Finally, on March 27, the fifth post in the series will discuss tips for going beyond training in order to create effective and engaging employee education initiatives to boost awareness and compliance culture.
Last week’s post discussed the importance of commitments by executive boards, senior management, and top leadership in organization to expressing tone and modelling conduct to enable change. Once the path is cleared for institutions to follow, by the statements and actions that aim to define and promote the necessary change, effective and bold enforcement actions must follow.
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This week on Compliance Culture
Be sure to visit Compliance Culture this week for posts on these topics.
- Monday: Corporate cultural change: Consistent and visible enforcement
- Tuesday: Compliance and behavioral economics
- Wednesday: Integrity of game play: Referee bias
- Thursday: Compliance and ethics of online platforms: YouTube
- Friday: Ethics of knowledge acquisition in technology
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Check out last week’s posts on Compliance Culture, in case you missed or want to revisit them.
- Monday: Corporate cultural change: Tone and conduct at the top
- Tuesday: Insights from self-development and coaching for compliance officers
- Wednesday: Integrity of game play: Ethics of tanking
- Thursday: Round-up on anti-money laundering compliance
- Friday: Selected Dirty Money episodes for corporate compliance
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Dirty Money is a documentary series that premiered on Netflix in January 2018. The series focuses on different case studies of corporate corruption. The documentaries delve into the political and cultural causes behind the key events in each case, motivations of the individuals involved, and the way that society has been impacted by these situations, some of which remain under investigation or legal challenge. While all the episodes are interesting to study for general themes of corporate compliance and/or ethical culture and organizational integrity, four of the episodes are especially relevant.
The practice of money laundering takes on many forms, all with the objective of transferring money earned from illegal activities into the legal financial system for further use. These various strategies for transferring profits from theft, drug sales, bribery, or other illicit activities are all targeted for the criminals to gain access to legitimate banking and from there use the money for mainstream activities such as investing, shopping, or buying property.
Editor’s note: Check back in the coming days for additional content to this post which will feature a deep-dive discussion on the moral code of tanking and the practice’s themes and applications between me, from a compliance and ethics perspective, and my husband, Bill Afonso, from a sports management and strategy perspective.
This is the second in a series of five posts on the topic of integrity of game play. Last week’s post discussed player misconduct, such as penalty embellishment, like diving and flopping, and equipment cheating. Today’s post is about the ethics of tanking and will question the morality of the practice across various sports and situations. Next week’s post, on March 7, will be about how instances of referee bias impact games, players, and teams. The fourth post, on March 14, will be about institutional cheating by team organizations. The fifth and final post, on March 21, will be about coaches who have demonstrated unethical leadership practices.
Tanking is loosely defined as relying upon poor performance in order to ensure future benefit or competitive advantage based upon bottom of the table results. Internal decisions within the team organization can be planned and intended for the purpose of gaining future advantage via sustained losses or refraining from employing the most competitive strategies. This can include roster manipulations such as sitting key players or keeping others in the minor leagues or farm systems, as well as actually instructing players actively in the game to underperform or to pursue strategies they expect to be unsuccessful or unproductive in order to deliberately lose the game(s).