Building Corporate Compliance Program

A Behavioral Decision-Making Approach

Abstract

Japanese companies are putting a great deal of energy into efforts to improve their ethicality and have established systems to promote corporate compliance program — installing codes of ethics, corporate ethics and legal compliance program, ethics helpline, and ethics training. Despite all this effort, observed illegal/unethical behavior in the workplace is on the rise. This paper focuses on “compliance training program for employees” conducted in the workplace and consists of the following three elements: (1)a comprehensive review of the literature on ethical decision-making models(2) behavioral business ethics approach to ethics training and(3)how to build an effective training program.