How to Create an Effective Compliance and Online Ethics Course

In the past, an organization could determine how effective its compliance and online ethics course was by charting program attendance and completion rates.

Today, companies must re-evaluate the way they measure the success of their compliance and online ethics course programs. LRN, the leading provider of legal research, safety training course, and online ethics course programs, believes that organizations must imbue a code of corporate ethics and responsibility into the very fabric of their organizational cultures. LRN has also found that the most effective online ethics course and compliance programs teach employees what constitutes both ethical and unethical behavior – based on an institutionalized code of ethics – so employees can recognize and report unethical behavior, affirm that they follow the code of conduct, and understand that they will be held accountable to maintain an ethical culture.

LRN's extensive research shows that an organization creates an effective corporate risk management and online ethics course when it contains the following five key elements:

• Senior management drives the online ethics course and compliance program curriculum and harassment training participation.
• Educate employees about the importance of values – in addition to laws and rules – to instill ethical leadership and exemplary behavior.
• Compliance and online ethics course content needs to be engaging and interesting in order to encourage active participation and learning.
• Relate the compliance and online ethics course to actual on the job scenarios that employees usually encounter.
• Reinforce corporate compliance training, HIPAA training and online ethics course learning to "real life" experiences that take place in the workplace.

Since 1993, LRN has shown nearly 300 companies how to develop interesting and effective online ethics course and sexual harassment training programs to fit their cultures. LRN's 350 professionals, all of whom share a wealth of diverse experience and knowledge ranging from careers in academia to multimedia and philosophy to technology, can help you design a set of customized communication and educational training materials that will reinforce your business code of ethics. LRN's online ethics course and compliance program courseware and interactive tools are designed to teach your employees the importance of ethical leadership and corporate values are to your company's bottom line. Visit LRN.com to find out how you can create a winning corporate compliance and online ethics course programs to inspire principled performance.