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Employee collaboration: The new compliance paradigm, fairy tale or imperative?

Published: 15 October 2008

Date: Tuesday 21 October, 2008
Time: 1.10 pm
Venue: Law Staff Library, Clayton campus [R215]

Conceptions of compliance commonly involve employees obeying organisational rules and policies and a compliance culture based on enforcement. This may still be legitimate in some circumstances, but seeking obedience to organisational rules may limit the potential for sustainable compliance performance in contemporary workplaces. Reflective of constant social, economic, technological and regulatory changes affecting companies, the nature of a job and the employer-employee psychological contracts has altered significantly in the last two decades. Compliance today has become a part of the exchange between individual employees and their organisation.

Drawing on recent literature, her qualitative research and industry consultation, Lisa will present alterative compliance culture models that seek to engage and collaborate with employees to improve compliance outcomes.

The presentation will address the following questions:

• What does a collaborative compliance culture look like?
• What are the potential benefits?
• How do organisations develop a collaborative approach to compliance?
• What are some examples of collaborative compliance culture?

Lisa Interligi has a Bachelor of Arts and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology from Monash University and is currently completing a doctorate in organizational psychology on the topic “Exploring Organizational Compliance Culture” in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She is also Project Manager of the Monash University Compliance Culture project, in collaborative with the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies and Monash Centre for Organizational Research and Psychology and supported by SAI Global Limited. Lisa has 20 years broad business experience in consulting and operational management and is currently a Director of a management consultancy in Melbourne, specialising in change management, strategic planning and organisational development. Prior to taking up her psychology studies, Lisa was the Group Manager, New Media for Telstra’s directory business (Sensis), CEO of an online services business in the property sector and General Manager of an Australian corporate communications consultancy.

RSVP is essential for the above seminar as a light lunch will be provided.

RSVP to Meli Voursoukis telephone +61 3 990 54135 or email: meli.voursoukis@law.monash.edu.au

For further information on Faculty Seminars for the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies in 2008, email: sandra.webb@law.monash.edu.au.