The most highlighted drawback of fastly growing industrialization which is destroying the image and reputation of companies, government or public sectors is bribery. Bribery refers to any gift, hospitality, money or service offered to an official to get the work done on priority basis, which is out of law and illegal. It prevents the equal distribution of right to the customers. People who can not offer bribe often get delayed services or they are compelled to pay bribe on the cost of their lifelong savings, property etc in order to get the service done. Around 53% of CEOs have the information of all the bribery activities going under them and bribery makes around a trillion dollar of total revenue every year.
Hence in order to save the brand reputation as well as the rights of customers, all the workers or employees must be trained to prohibit, avoid and stop any bribery activity at the workplace. Many learning institutions are run by anti-bribery professionals which provide organized training programs to teach anti bribery policies to the employees. The companies undergo anti bribery training programs for their employees on regular basis.
Under this program, the employees are made aware about the difference between genuine gifts and hospitality and the gifts which come under the category of bribe.
Different jurisdictions have different laws and standards to implement anti bribery management into the system. Special training sessions are organized by the trainers to teach all these laws to the employees and consequences of associated risks.
The training program delivers the information related to all the type of interactions where bribery is being offered and accepted. The employees are trained to identify the bribery activities and avoid any acceptance to bribery. The training aims to reduce any habit of asking or accepting bribes. It clarifies all the disadvantages of bribery that can defame the reputation of employee, his family as well as that of the company. It teaches about the long lasting benefits of maintaining a long term trustworthy and healthy relationship with customers and company. The employees are motivated to follow the concept of integrity and act as the “integrity embassador” of the company.
This training program can be provided by face to face sessions, online classes, seminars, conferences, remote-e learning etc. Online training can be accessed with training material or notes with tips to implement anti bribery policies in the company. Face to face training is more appealing than online as it creates direct interaction with employees. Face to face training can be done by both external or internal trainers. Timely analysis and documentation of all the training program is done to ensure its perfect implementation in the company. Feedback of managers and ceos is anticipated to assess the impact of training on the employees.