Professional Standards for a Workplace Investigation
Meric Bloch is the Principal of Winter Investigations, a consulting firm specializing in workplace investigations design and implementation.
Meric has designed, implemented, and managed workplace-investigations processes for multinational public companies. He has trained thousands of HR and compliance professionals to conduct workplace investigations.
Meric has personally conducted over eight hundred internal investigations of fraud and serious workplace misconduct globally.
Meric is the author of four books on investigations: The Art of Investigations; In the Arena; Workplace Investigations: Techniques and Strategies for Investigators and Compliance Officers; Investigative Interviewing, and The First Information Is Wrong. He also wrote chapters in the Bribery and Corruption Casebook and The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual.
This webinar has been approved for 1.00 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org
Professional Standards for a Workplace Investigation is a review of the standards that apply to investigators who conduct workplace investigations process as part of an organization’s system of internal justice and accountability. Each participant will receive an Investigator’s Code of Ethics for use in their organization.
This online webinar covers the following key topics:
- The qualities of a good workplace investigator
- The ethical obligations of a workplace investigator
- The four parts of an investigator’s integrity
- The factors that make a workplace investigation ethical
- The concepts of procedural justice in a workplace investigation
Areas Covered
- To learn the personal qualities that a workplace investigator should have
- To understand the ethical obligations an investigator has both to the process and the participants in an investigation
- To understand how four key factors comprise an investigator’s integrity
- To identify the factors that, when implemented, make a workplace organization ethical
- To learn the principles of procedural justice that are the foundations of the workplace investigations process
Who Should Attend
Compliance officers, internal auditors, lawyers, investigators, and HR professionals.
Why Should You Attend
From time to time, an employer will need to investigate formally or informally concerns about an employee’s workplace behavior. If your organization has a hotline and other reporting channels to give employees a way to speak up, this is only half of the equation.
The other half is thoroughly addressing and when necessary, fully investigating – allegations once they have been reported.
Investigating and resolving an allegation correctly strengthens and protects your organization. A proper investigation gives management needed information and a factual basis on which to make its decisions. It also reinforces both the fairness of the employee discipline process and your commitment to learning about employee concerns.
The objectives and scope of investigations vary widely, but its overriding purpose is always to find out the relevant facts. Each investigation may be unique and handled differently, following standard techniques can help you investigate in a fair, transparent, and consistent manner.
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$200.00
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