Understanding the interaction between culture, behaviour and business ethics is clearly high on the corporate agenda for business leaders, senior accountants and regulators alike. The largely regulation and rules-based response to the financial crisis has somewhat missed the main problem. Many people with whom we engaged expressed despair with what they see as a general tendency to apply quick fixes and ‘snake oil’ to deep, complicated and often poorly understood behavioural issues.
RealControls is the first method enabling organisations to chart cultural risks and ineffective behaviour within organisations in a logic and systematic way. RealControls can be described as an X-ray machine for the soft side of organisations. In addition to providing insight into risks, RealControls charts cultural differences and balances within the organisation. And substantiates topics such as alignment and engagement with hard objective figures, thereby detecting a number of issues requiring management attention. Read more on www.realcontrols.nl