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Best practices in business include corporate compliance. This simply means conducting businesses in accordance with laws and rules of the company. There are three requirements of corporate compliance which ensure an upward progress of business organizations.

1.       Policies form the basis of corporate compliance: Features like being innovative, quality driven, transparent, reliable and honest are the basis of the policies in corporate compliance. Knowledge about the corporate compliance policies is essential for implementation of best practices.

2. Follow the policy list: Respecting laws and regulations is an essential best practice to ensure corporate compliance. This includes international laws and encourages business partners and employees to comply with the list of policies. Some basic policies to ensure corporate compliance include:

• Committed and Fair Competition: Business firms should take active part in competition but maintain fairness.
• Maintain Integrity: Maintaining a transparent and non corrupt set up in important. There must be zero tolerance for corruption of any form.
• Ensure Safety: Ensuring safety of people and the environment is an important best practice. Business organizations must ensure compliance with rules and regulations surrounding processes to ensure safety at every level.
• Comply with Foreign Trade Laws: Best practices include ensuring compliance with national and international foreign trade laws.
• Implementing unbiased security measures for trading: There should not be partiality when implementing security measures for employees. They should all me treated equally and respect confidentiality of information which could compromise the business.
• Proper Documentation and Record Keeping: There should be proper protocols and procedures of documentation to ensure transparency and error free documentation. At every level, a successful business organization must ensure best practices by implementing systematic documentation.
• Good working Environment: Employees should enjoy the physical and social working conditions. There must be encouragement of respect and fairness in the working environments as best practices. Managers must implement necessary procedures to achieve this through encouraging cooperation and interpersonal interaction between the staff and employees.
• Enforcing Property rights and Rules for Confidentiality: Business managers must ensure best practice by enforcing employees to respect the company’s properties and those of co-workers. At the same time there is the need to encourage confidentiality of business policies and setbacks. Compliance with intellectual property rights is very important.
• Separation of Corporate and Personal Interests: It is very important to ensure that a demarcation between corporate and personal interests is established. Employees must not relate business decision with personal interest.
• Authorities must be Cooperative: It is a best practice to ensure that all information communicated between the authorities and government is open, understandable and timely.

3. Compliance with Implementation: Managers ensuring best practices must ensure compliance with implementation of policies, laws and regulation of the company at every level. Incase any lapses and failure to comply are observed they must report the matter to authorities and take necessary steps. This involves investigation, training, advice and implementing appropriate measures for violators.

Corporate compliance is an important requirement for best practices and must be implemented by every business organization.

Further reading: Corporate Governance | Audit | Performance Improvement