Apart from doing the right thing by the organisation and its staff, ethical conduct in the workplace results in increased productivity, improved staff morale and teamwork, protection of assets, and enhanced public image and brand value.
Our Ethical Conduct & Investigations practice exists to assist our clients to achieve and maintain a robust governance framework and an ethical culture. This includes Code of Conduct training and advisory services that are focused on preventing fraud, corruption and misconduct.
We undertake high quality independent investigations of Code of Conduct breaches and workplace misconduct. We also have superior expertise and vast experience in investigating Public Interest Disclosures (PIDs) and reviewing and recommending improvement opportunities to complaint handling systems and processes.
Our clients entrust us with complex and sensitive matters and we are always responsive and thorough. Confidentiality, procedural and substantive fairness and respect for people are paramount in all our client engagements.
We are appointed as conduct reviewers for approximately 100 Councils. Our specialist investigators have superior expertise and vast experience in all matters relating to alleged misconduct that may be referred from our clients. Our team includes former senior governance staff from leading Councils, a former Council Ombudsman and a former Deputy NSW Ombudsman.
Our extensive experience in this area includes:
Each member of our multidisciplinary team of investigators has professional qualifications and vast experience in investigating workplace, civil and criminal matters. Our team includes senior human resource managers, CPAs and certified fraud examiners, lawyers, psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and a former Deputy NSW Ombudsman.
Our services include:
We offer our clients a multidisciplinary team of privacy, conflict of interests and public interest disclosures, including a former Deputy NSW Ombudsman. Our experience includes matters before the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Ombudsman and Office of Local Government.
How we can help:
We assist client organisations with reviews of their complaints management and internal reporting structures, policies and procedures. Our Ethical Conduct & Investigations team has vast experience in managing complaints, and a deep understanding of the legislative requirements that govern them. The team includes, as its senior advisor, a former Deputy NSW Ombudsman.
How we can help:
We assist client organisations to obtain evidence of fraud and corruption, and other wrongdoing perpetrated by employees, contractors and competitors in an ever-changing digital environment. We then provide our clients clear and concise reports on our findings.
Our contemporary forensic services include:
