Books

Anyone working in the compliance field knows that the best ideas for building an effective program come from other compliance and ethics professionals. Author Joe Murphy has spent years not only collecting such ideas, but also using them and networking with others who use them.

He shares 501 of them here ideas big and small to help others find new ways to improve their compliance and ethics programs. Topics covered in this collection include:
>>identifying compliance & ethics risks
>>establishing and enforcing a program
>>conducting audits
>>benchmarking against industry practices
>>preparing for investigations
>>evaluating effectiveness
>>and much more!

Enron. WorldCom. Arthur Andersen. Tyco.  If you're wondering how a system fraught with criminal and ethical misbehavior could possibly be right for you, authors Joseph E. Murphy and Joshua H. Leet have the answer: Join what SmartMoney.com calls one of America's top ten fastest growing fields. 

Their book, Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics, is the first ever to give step-by-step instructions on how to establish a career making powerful organizations safer and more ethical. 

You'll discover: the wide range of compliance and ethics jobs; the skills and temperament needed for this field; practical ways to prepare for and get ahead in your career; steps for conducting an effective job search; advice from seasoned compliance and ethics professionals in the field; tips for selling your compliance and ethics program to upper management.

Thousand of new positions for compliance professionals and personnel have emerged, and in fact the compliance profession has begun to differentiate itself within the health care industry.

In their book Interactive Corporate Compliance, Jay Sigler and Joseph Murphy proposed a system in which government scrutiny of business is reduced in return for self-regulatory vigilance. 

In this follow-up collection of essays, Sigler and Murphy seek to meet the challenge of putting such a policy into practice. 

A series of essays detail a variety of suggestions for implementing such a system, as well as some forms of interactive compliance already in use.

"Interactive Corporate Compliance is a creative contribution to the generally moribund business regulation literature. It makes compelling reading."

- American Business Journal, Winter 1990

Throughout U.S. history, the relationship between business and government has fluctuated constantly under the influence of changing political conditions, rather than in response to a conscious design. This book describes a new approach to business-government interactions while giving business and government officials a new set of practical proposals for change. 

The proper relationship between business and government in the United States remains an unsettled issue. However, the time has come, Sigler and Murphy assert, to reconsider some old assumptions with regard to this relationship and to examine some new alternatives to the benefit of both forces. 

Written by a respected political scientist and an attorney experienced in corporate compliance law, this book represents a review of the history of government regulation of business, showing where it has succeeded and where it has failed. 

Coining the phrase interactive compliance, the authors provide a new framework for corporate compliance--one that would be non-adversarial and cooperative in nature. Their book offers a novel, yet practical, approach by which business can comply with government regulation on the one hand, while government takes a non-adversarial stance in response to business on the other.