More and more compliance rules are paid attention to in big companies (and not only there). Also, the list of prohibited behaviour gets more and more precise, just like the control mechanisms and regulations get more and more intense.
Simultaneously, the enterprises take more and more pains to gain advantage using all possible tricky and rigorous means and methods. Trying to influence customers, providers, and the legislation is no longer done as clumsily as it used to be when direct or indirect financial promotion or money-equivalent advantages were granted.
No: the methods of influencing have become a lot more subversive through the entire compliance ballyhoo. Now you buy people of influence, control politics like enterprises, science and development with the carrot and the stick, manipulate opinions in an ingenious way. That is how you can influence your environment far more elegantly and effectively than it was possible in former times through the simple mechanism of bribery.
What often happens with grievance abolition laws is happening to the compliance regulations, too. When the hare “legislator” arrives, the ingenious hedgehog has been there a long time ago and found better ways.
Compliance even becomes the accomplice of our new corruption. You openly show your clean slate – including the certification – and on the sly you really get into the spirit of cheating and f… over.
What our society needs is not compliance rules, but a “new honesty”. The rules of honesty are a lot simpler – yet a lot harder to stick to. If you follow them, you simply must no longer try to gain competitive advantages through unethical means.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
I took the picture from wikipedia. Dr. Torsten Henning put it there for common use. Many thanks!
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