Business ethics, compliance and corporate responsibility are key elements that define modern business competitiveness. Leading companies set the standards of performance and behavior and are clear about what they aspire to be. However, they also operate in a complex, fast changing and competitive business environment. Based on LSM values of excellence and ethics, this certificate aims to provide professionals and leaders with the tools to manage those complex dilemmas and implement effective, agile and appropriate cultures and programmes throughout their business.
KEY PROGRAMME BENEFITS
- Expert professors from a leading management school together with international field experts with real-world experience;
- Deeply anchored in professional practice, with highly interactive, practical cases studies;
- Concrete tools, directly applicable in participants’ daily professional activities;
- Tools for strengthening and challenging participants’ general management skills by introducing ethical leadership and sustainability into decision making;
- Opportunities to build valuable networks with other participants and industry representatives;
- A schedule compatible with professional commitments;
- Accredited by professional bodies and recommended by partner companies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
- Master the multidisciplinary components of an integrity and compliance strategy.
- Understand the key success factors for establishing an ethics and compliance programme, including the international aspects relevant for their company.
- Identify, measure and manage the significant integrity and compliance risks that may affect their business operations.
- Establish control and prevention mechanisms to mitigate ethical and compliance risks for business activities.
- Develop monitoring and audit mechanisms for the ethical and compliance programme and thus ensure that the programme remains fit for its purpose.
- Create a learning loop to ensure continuous improvement.
TEACHING APPROACH AND ASSESSMENT
The teaching method will combine theory and practical experimentation through case studies. In thematic conferences, recognized field experts will share their experiences (successes and failures), discuss specific ethics and compliance risks and conduct vigorous discussions with participants about how to articulate ethics and management in their companies.Participants will integrate the knowledge they acquire in a team analysis of a complex case study, involving critical debates that encourage practice with group-based analyses.A final personal paper also is required. This paper will either develop a concrete plan pertaining to one of the course topics or else describe the implementation of a certain number of aspects studied in a specific case chosen by the student (e.g., his or her own company). It will be presented in front of a jury of experts and other participants.
PROGRAMME CONTENT
The 158-hour certificate programme is built on six pillars:
MODULE 1: COMPLIANCE TOOLKIT
Managing business ethics and compliance
- Fundamentals of business ethics and compliance management
- Governance models, in a multidisciplinary approach
- Risk management: mapping, review and reporting
- Codes of conduct, education, whistleblowing
- Embedding controls in business activities
MODULE 4: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
Conferences and seminars on regulatory compliance topics
- Accountability of the compliance function
- Anticorruption, Conflicts of Interests, Money Laundering
- Competition laws (Antitrust), Export control
- Human Rights, Data privacy
MODULE 2: CULTURE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Organizational culture, ethical leadership, and CSR management
- Key components and tools to establish a responsible culture
- Understanding CSR theories and stakeholder approaches
- Mechanisms to foster ethical performance
- Growing an ethical culture with employees
MODULE 5: CASE STUDIES
Resolving complex business dilemmas
- Case studies to be prepared and solved in small teams
- Resolution of critical business decisions
- Dealing with multiple and sometime conflicting stakeholder decisions
- Each team will prepare a four-hour session to present lessons learned from previous modules
MODULE 3: MONITORING AND AUDIT
Monitoring, Audit, Internal and external investigations
- Knowing what to do if the company is subject to external investigations by regulators
- Leading internal investigations, reporting, credibility and continuous improvement
- Embedding ethics and compliance in the audit programme
- Managing interfaces with management, audit and other functions
- Monitoring business partners (joint ventures, supply chains)
MODULE 6: INDIVIDUAL PAPER
Final paper and certification
- Based on in-depth company observations and/or interviews with key informants
- Each paper will deal with a challenging business decision or the implementation of one of the frameworks learned.
- An alternative approach may feature an in-depth analysis of a specific ethical dilemma.
- A paper of about 30 pages is expected and will lead to the final certification
THE TEACHING TEAM
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LAURENT CLAASSEN, Partner Deloitte Forensic, Compliance and Analytics, regulatory risk and compliance specialist.
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YVES DE RONGÉ, Professor at the Louvain School of Management (UCL).
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CARLOS DESMET, MBA, Visiting Professor (UCL), Ethics and Compliance advisor, previously Ethics and Compliance Officer at Shell International.
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JEAN MARC GOLLIER, Lawyer and senior counsel since 2009 at Eubelius. He is visiting lecturer at UCL and a member of CRIDES (Centre for Company law at UCL).
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AXEL GOSSERIES, Permanent Research Fellow (FRS-FNRS), Extraordinary professor (UCL), Responsible for the « Social Responsibility in Economic Life » Bernheim Project.
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JAN NOTERDAEME, co-founder and Senior Advisor for CSR Europe. Representative of CSR Europe in the Coordination Committee of the European Multistakeholder Forum on CSR.
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JACQUES SPELKENS, Head of Territorial and CSR Networks Development and CSR Manager for Belgium (Group ENGIE), Lecturer in «Ethique et Responsabilité Sociale de l’Entreprise» (ICHEC).
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VALÉRIE SWAEN, Academic director of the programme; Professor of Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility at UCL and at IESEG School of Management (France).
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FREDERIK VERHASSELT, Corporate Security Officer at Umicore
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FRANÇOIS VINCKE, Brussels Bar, Head Anti-Corruption Commission, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris.
PRACTICAL INFORMATIONVENUE AND SCHEDULE
The programme will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve from September 2016 to December 2017. Courses are hold on Friday evenings and Saturdays, twice a month.
Please refer to the website www.uclouvain.be/business-ethics for a detailed schedule.
WORKING LANGUAGE
English
TUITION FEES
The tuition fee is 5 990 € (VAT excl.) and includes teaching materials, access to the UCL infrastructure, meals and coffee breaks.
A discount of 20% will be offered for a second (or more) participant from the same company.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
The participants will preferably hold a master in Economics, Management, Business engineering, Finance, Law, Civil engineer, among others. They will have a minimum of 3 years of working experience. Candidates who don’t meet above admission criteria but are willing to be considered for the programme, can submit a file with their relevant work experience.
Acceptance into the programme is based on a selection interview and a review of the registration file by a commission composed of three teachers in the programme.
More information about the registration file is available on our website: www.uclouvain.be/business-ethics.
ENROLMENT PROCEDURE
The registration form is available online : http://www.uclouvain.be/516845.html.
The number of participants is limited to ensure the quality of the programme.
The organizers reserve the right to cancel or postpone the certificate, should the number of participants be insufficient.
UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATE
Participants who have actively taken part in the whole programme and passed the required evaluations will be issued a “University certificate in Business ethics and compliance management”, worth 20 ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System). This certificate is in itself a valuable addition to the participant’s academic records. Furthermore, the associated credits, if validated by the examination board of a subsequent academic programme elsewhere in Europe, can be applied in that programme. Participation in all sessions, without passing the evaluations, will result in the issuance of a certificate of attendance.
