Summary

Every company official, manager, and supervisor should understand how important it is to ensure that the practices of the organization are administered in a fair and consistent manner. Everyone working for the organization, in fact, must understand their responsibility to report problems or allegations immediately so that an investigation can begin in a prompt and timely manner, before the problem escalates into a more serious one. You must be sure that these things are done.

The organization should create more than one way for employees to voice work-related concerns or report problems to management—ways that are most comfortable to them—so that an inquiry or review can start.

1.  The organization needs to have an open-door policy ...

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