CHAPTER 4: IMPLEMENTING AN ABMS: ONE KEY ISSUE
What’s a gift?
When implementing an ABMS, a gifts and hospitality policy is one of the most discussed and contentious areas to roll out to all staff.
If this can be done successfully, many of the other areas of the ABMS will be comparatively plain sailing.
Gifts may be cash, other items, services or activities of value. Value will be relative to the organisation, wider cultural perceptions in the country concerned and the purpose of the gift. A promotional biro with a logo on it is almost certainly not a bribe, whereas a sports car would be. The difficulty resides with items in between the two extremes and the circumstances in which they are offered or accepted.
Hospitality can merge into the concept ...
Get ISO 37001: An Introduction to Anti-Bribery Management Systems now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
