SilentWhistle
Ethics Hotline
Many organizations have set up an ethics hotline as the way for customers, employees and partners to anonymously report concerns and ask questions that they are not comfortable giving in-person. An ethics hotline protects an organization from inappropriate or illegal behavior that could not only cause problems for an individual, but also for the organization and its stakeholders. A number of recent events have emphasized the need for all organizations to have ethics hotlines, whether to report accounting fraud, harassment or theft.
What makes an ethics hotline truly effective are a couple of key things. First, the ethics hotline must be anonymous. Web-based ethics hotlines such as SilentWhistle by Allegiance, are truly anonymous because they do not require the person giving feedback to leave behind any form of personal identification. A second important way to ensure an ethics hotline is effective is making sure that the organization responds to the feedback. Once feedback is submitted into the SilentWhistle ethics hotline, either via phone or the Web, it is routed to the appropriate manager or executive who is accountable for providing a timely response. SilentWhistle ethics hotline is accessible worldwide, 24 hours and seven days a week, and is capable of handling over 150 languages.
