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68 percent of those surveyed said they would be willing to report bullying or discrimination slightly less 65 percent said they would speak up about fraud while only 59 percent say they would call out that of company property. but what about the rest meghan rates is a business school instructor specializing in leadership she provides 5 tips on how to create a culture of openness in companies whether we speak up or stay silent affects compliance affects safety issues of malpractise but also can create environments of innovation in gelati and of course inclusively to helping people to speak up work matters. so here's my advice on how to create to speak up culture in your workplace.
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think about them ask crime group challenge. now if you're struggling to think of examples then paths of those find you a little bit scary. so a classic phrase that leaders and managers often make is my door is always open. yes but you're still in your office there's something about getting outside of that environment because that can be quite intimidating for people coming into your place. start focusing on getting people to be brain and speak up i'm focusing more of your time and energy on listening and learning how to help people to feel safe. i've met leaders who tell me they need to speak up more they need to be more assertive and courageous rather focus on creating an environment where they don't have to be so
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brave in the 1st place for example there's a great deal of difference in trying to have a conversation with someone in a group meeting versus taking somebody for a walk outside in the park you'll get very different quality of conversation depending on what you do. assume that you need to do and more work to help people speak up than you think so i research shows that the more senior you are the more likely you are to think that people are speaking up when they're not and we call this the optimism bubble if you find yourself thinking you have people are speaking up well round here then challenge your assumptions. and chief executives we interviewed really wanted to help his team to speak up that he confided to us that he had a little list in his mind of the people that he listened to and the people that he
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didn't but you and i we all have these little lists who's on you was very often the voices we hear are a lot like our own and they're from people that look like us it means that you're not aware of others' experiences within your organization and potentially outside of it as well sac see need to be reaching out and connecting with those groups. to send signals to others all the time through our body and verbal language and some of those signals help partners to speak up and some keep them silent the moment after someone has spoken up. your response will determine whether a bad person and probably that colleagues will speak up next time i'm afraid that 9
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times out of 10 you might respond really well unfortunately it's that 10. that everybody will remember and talk about that time when you were really tired or you were really stressed so if you do kind of make a mistake and you do realize in hindsight that you've reacted in a way that might be detrimental then reach out to that person. helping people to speak up work for matches it matters for us it matters. and one of the most important things i've talked about is our ability to create a safe environment where people can speak up. and i have my 5 points tips will enable me to do that. at the end of the day doing the right thing is everyone's responsibility but the responsibility and liability grows the higher up
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the institutional ladder you go how do leaders and sure that ethical standards are adhere to some scandal hit companies now invest a lot of money in compliance our reporter holzman spoke to the chief executive of one such company bill thing or a construction firm with business around the world who say they have managed to clean up their act. klein a guy in germany they think a little gift is a good way to maintain friendships and make new ones so i brought along a bottle of red wine and a small envelope. it was because you know that you brought you a little something things but obviously i can't accept this on blow by have to give it back he didn't see his name going let's all like to think that really but i'd hoped our interview would be especially nice. compliance is full compliance is very
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important to us so we're always very careful i have to pass everything on to our head of compliance put it to good use if you're sick. compliance mean sticking to rules against corruption blades wants to show that that's now the norm at his company building or in recent years corruption has been an issue of building there which produces and install spectrum equipment worldwide . the biggest corruption case emerged in nigeria and 2003 where a subsidiary paid bribes to the government to lend contracts built figure was fined $32000000.00. the us department of justice is also watching bill finger closely because the scandal involved an american joint venture partner. blades and his predecessors have had to provide regular updates on their compliance since the case
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against the company was proven seeing nothing for 10 years after the event we had to pay a fine as an aside i deferred prosecution agreement and deferred prosecution agreement as i am days lays down what we have to do to make sure we show that we're compliant and listen and that we remain compliant in the future as well compliance leaving. compliance not. and length was born in hamburg to a british father and a german mother he has worked in germany since the late 1990 s. and came to building or me 2016. ok. so he sees it all so you took over just at the time of the nigeria case so finding. a way to. take a step back. one day and please mind that sign here is that part of compliance no it's health and safety was the one you were telling me to grab the railing come on
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mr blades you don't do that all the time surely it's my each and every time because rule number 2 be a good example. and says this is all right setting a good example this is ok this house isn't where when you arrived at building or as it was dealing with the fallout from nigeria. you know that's right it was under way. you could have gone to work for a company with fewer challenges one perhaps with more positive prospects right if you know anything so i didn't come here because of the corruption when i came here because this company is undergoing a transformational offended because i've been working for almost 40 years on industrial services business that he reasoned and that's why i said yes i'll go for that on the sins of the so. many months when bill finger says it set up a compliant system what does that mean. compliances i include guns i'm not a smile my answer is quite straightforward it's keeping
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a promise of integrity you've got a very simple example is what's appropriate and say you're in talks with a client and decide ok let's go for something to eat you know what's appropriate there if it's a president someone from the very top it's then what's appropriate is very different from what's appropriate when you're out with the guys from the construction sites and squinting off the votes that is into. it wasn't only nigeria at the world cup in brazil $124.00 team a subsidiary was accused of trying to get contracts built in or dropped the company . purchased half what kind of penalties didn't employees face the might of science facing a. humane regarding malfeasance or corruption that based. this is after the radical case but we have to be prepared for such cases initially we'd hand the contract back because we cheated to get it. when we'd start an investigation to find out who
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was behind it all. and the lawyers would have to reckon with us filing a criminal complaint with prosecutors. and other it also be internal consequences including sacking people. and they'd have to expect we'd also want compensation we lost the contract. give us a shade for me it's about hygiene for me just like with a hospital if a hospital isn't clean then it's a bad hospital it's not about good or bad doctors want to hospitals no longer clean sized you simply wouldn't go there live in the. house they'd. write in understanding because of the need for the others go to think you know let's think if you decide just. saw divine so i let the wind here it's up stairs in the compliance department it will be catalogued and maybe turn up in a raffle to raise money for a good cause obviously tom blades didn't keep the cash and the same ethical rules
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apply to me as a journalist 0 tolerance for bribery. remember if you see something say something although we know that can be hard that's it for this edition of may thanks very much for watching see you again soon.
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media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. this is day to believe news live from berkeley the e.u. and china open their markets brussels and beijing sealed an investment deal after 7 music talks but is the e.u. putting business before human rights also coming up deadly explosions ripped through yemen's otten airport the likely talk of a plane carrying the country's newly formed unity government. and became the boil
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strikes out against police brutality in nairobi taking the legal fight from the courtroom to the boxing ring. imagining how broken to the program the european union has star struck a controversy over investment deal with china the e.u. has held the accord saying it will give european companies better access to chinese markets but the critics say those economic benefits come at the expense of human rights. for 7 years european union representatives have been haggling with china at the negotiating table the results were presented at a joint press conference. market access for both sides will be improved a level playing field means that chinese state owned enterprises will no longer be
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given preferential treatment through subsidies and for the 1st time china commits to following environmental climate social as well as occupational health and safety standards but when it comes to those standards chinese president xi jinping made only vague promises in the agreement china has imprisoned up to $1000000.00 readers in labor and reeducation camps and xing zhang province she has promised to sign a convention against forced labor but no date has been set and sanctions haven't been discussed even take promises around market access haven't been convincing. what the the premier the stories confirming to the chinese companies that the family says the european market was due always. the problem is the other way around it's above that yes it's of european companies the chinese market which has always 'd been no close in terms of investment because of the way that china entered into
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the world trade organization as if the repeat of the me was special rights. even though there have been some breakthroughs concerning competition both sides are not yet on equal footing so they were most likely need more often around the negotiating table in the coming years. but one of the critics of that tale is ron hot political office chair of the european parliament's delegation on china and a member of the green party he talked to the deputy about some of his concerns whenever somebody who's negotiated deal tell soon that this has been the best deal ever the best deal in history you should be highly suspicious and indeed the european commission is putting lipstick on a pig here because this deal even though it has some advantages for european business is highly deficient in other. strategically important dimensions
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notably there has been no success in the neck goes he asians with regard to the protection of labor rights of the chinese neighbor ross and now this seems to be a new opening for strong trans-atlantic relations with an incoming biden administration led by a veteran leader who respects and values a partnerships why would the e.u. rush to finalize a deal just before that happens i understand why the chinese put pressure on finalizing the deal because they are very. much afraid that the e.u. and the us would come together again and put up more efficient opposition to some of the injust practices that china represents but why would we give a hand to the chinese showing the middle finger to joe biden i think that's
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a strategic mistake. for at least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an attack at an international airport in yemen the blast went off just as members of the new unity government returned from saudi arabia so far no group has claimed responsibility the original was followed by another explosion near the presidential palace several hours lighter. it was meant to be a moment to celebrate. a newly formed government disembarking their unity a symbol of their promise to end yemen's long civil war. instead chaos. through explosions shortly after the planes arrival broke to the airport a local security source says more time shells landed on the airport pool. witnesses described hearing sporadic gunfire soon off so. how is later another
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explosion was reported to the presidential palace. this was a cowardly terrorist attack. the government is an audition to stay and to exercise its duties and operations with the strong will of our people. the acts of terror will not stop us from doing our work. he was given to the goodwill of the ministers have all been reported safe after the attack they were returning from the saudi capital where they had been sworn in as part of a cabinet reshuffle that reshuffle so yemen's internationally recognized government and i'm southern separatists a power sharing cabinet their aim is to forge a joint front against iran backed the rebels who seized the country's capital and much of the north in 2014 plunging the country into an ongoing civil war. while no one has claimed responsibility for the explosions that pullout blame has fallen on
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the hussein whose power in yemen is threatened by the new government alliance. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news this hour. syria's state news agency says at least 28 people were killed in an attack on a bus militants reportedly ambushed the vehicle in a highway about 50 kilometers southwest of the city of die. unconfirmed reports say the bus was carrying syrian soldiers. at least 11 people are still missing following a major landslide in norway police continue this not despite the treacherous conditions of all of earth crushed and buried hundreds in the town of us north of oslo emergency services trying to secure those buildings left still standing. all the post breaks that try deal has officially become law in the u.k. after receiving the queen's royal assent the british parliament overwhelmingly
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approved the agreement on wednesday after it was signed by a used top officials the accord comes into force just hours from now on generally 1st and redefines the economic relationship between britain and the e.u. well de w. has been talking to communities who'd be affected by the changes today we followed correspondent barbara vai's all to belong in france's busiest fishing port 5 of a fishing rights was a lingering sticking point in the trade deal. let's talk about fish because this is what wrecked it negotiators needed during the last days of the talks they counted every fishtail around british waters because that was what the big struggle was about the existence of fisherman both sides of the channel now we are today in. the french fishing port and with me is fisherman stuff flow man kid stuff
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you will probably be really relieved to see that there has been now compromise and french fishermen will keep a certain amount of access to british waters so. it's a relief that there isn't remote because for us that means 70 percent or catch. if you really would have had a hard no do you. as they say it would have lost 70 percent of a fisherman and the danger would have been that the majority of european vessels would then have come over into french waters. that at the moment with the deal we don't know the dividing lines yet where we will have the right to fish we will find out after the 1st of january because the deal has not yet been translated into french people only to see did you during the last weeks. really afraid that there would not be an agreement and your existence would follow way. because you would use all present disposal we were really afraid because this
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concern 70 percent of our daily work and if there had been no deal our profession would have ended there would have been no future of our jobs would have been lost and now we have to figure out how we can keep working the lowering of the quota we'll have to manage but it will be a constraint on a pivot to these because as you know the channel is really narrow if you leave the house. in 30 minutes you're in british water so the area where we can fish is really very small people call you to. do you think that after they say once you get into british waters next week after the 1st of january you'll have problems and troubles was put the fisherman was saying now everything belongs to us and i don't think we have problems with the english fisherman i think they have problems with that own government because we are not responsible for the politics or things go wrong because of threats it is because european politicians doing the
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right thing neither for the french nor for the british or sherman i think people the people more bitter towards british and european politicians the brits a fisherman like us and we have always worked together i think they're more disappointed with their government than angry with us so this is by christopher really a word of consolation and consultation off the relationship between the 2 sides they are all fishermen they all are trying to make a living here and the governments need to find. or a better compromise in the futures so that they can all survive and that's all for us from here in berlin through mare and the future of fisherman i will get back to you later. that was de w.'s barbara faisal reporting and the deputy has much more on the new u.k. tried relationship in have documentary titled more than sweep across one us talk about who they see as being brings its biggest winners and losers that's available
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right now on how you chip channel titled d w news staying in the region and britain has become the 1st country in the world to authorize the coronavirus vaccine developed by asked resume and oxford university but while the drug has received emergency approval on its home turf the european union and the united states ready to follow suit just yet lead the vaccine is cheaper and easier to transport them the biotech pfizer and modern versions but trial data suggests it's not as effective there is also uncertainty about the best dosage for the present make a vaccine and here are some of the of a latest developments in the pandemic in the u.s. more than 3900 people died from covenanting on wednesday a record for daily fatalities that's according to the lead discount jumps hopkins university for the 1st time germany registered more than 1000 coated related deaths in a single day health officials say it's partly due to delays in reporting over the public
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holidays and all and has announced a totten lockdown that were will remain in place for at least one month social gatherings are prohibited and all non-essential shops will be closed. well police brutality brutality and misconduct has long been a problem in kenya but one lawyer in the capital nairobi is trying to fight those abuses specially in the poorest neighborhoods and he's found a sport that's helping him do it. you may not want to tangle with this man neither in the ring nor in the courtroom when shut raekwon bluey was growing up in one of nairobi slums he experienced what he calls abusive police but decided to vent his frustrations through boxing in the gym he believes it helped him a void confrontations that could have ruined his career now the 29 year old is offering youth in poor areas both boxing lessons as well as informal classes on the
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law. the vote for you did not always go for the closest to the ones that. move the emotional ups and push through where some sensible. comedian. one buoy also convinced 50 other young lawyers to do volunteer work in the slums he says that by teaching youth boxing they might believe more in themselves in spite of the challenges they face. rights groups say those include being asked for bribes or being assaulted by police the kenyan police deny the accusations and i think anybody's going maybe be a hoax and become a. cause for a lot of issues no one and i fight for equal status is put before the lives of the poorest neighborhoods. they own men listen attentively as one buoy helps them
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hone their punching techniques mixing in information on their rights with instructions on what to do if a policeman asks for a bribe just stay calm and call him up and that's all for now don't forget you can always visit our web site k w dot com for more at any time of the day and you can also follow us on social media as well as handle social media channels and the news the covered special is next here on the channel i'll be back with more of the top of the hour. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update coming. on t w. 2 children to come to
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