Companies face the challenges of creating effective business integrity, ethics and anti-corruption policies and programs to improve access to the labor market, encourage customer loyalty, and engage and keep active employees.
Successful business integrity efforts must go beyond legal and institutional approaches and transform the attitudes of company management and employees.
University education for business integrity plays a vital role in creating the ethical awareness of future leaders and responsible citizens in Bulgaria.
As part of the program Responsible and Sustainable Business Management, Business Integrity course at Faculty of Economics of Sofia University TI-Bulgaria develop the potential of students and the cooperation between business and the academia strengthening the capacity of future business leaders.
100 students who take managerial positions in the public and private sectors have passed the course of Business Integrity for the academic year 2021 to 2024.
The lectures cover topics such as anti-corruption, ethical infrastructure, conflict of interest and the role of business integrity in modern corporate culture, risk management, as well as the new requirements related to the implementation of the Law on protection of whistleblowers in Bulgaria.
TI-Bulgaria Business Integrity initiative addresses these issues through an innovative approach to promote ethical decision-making and attitudes of young people at the beginning of their careers by solving practical cases that they may face later in their careers.
Knowledge and real-life case studies allow them to become leaders in the implementation of anti-corruption policies and to form a collective culture of business integrity.