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CyberSecurity Regulations Are Ramping Up

By Eve Tahminicioglu

There’s a laser focus on cybersecurity these days and regulations to keep breaches from happening are on the horizon.

A report released this week by EY Center for Board Matters looks at key regulatory changes globally and offers directors guidance on what they need to keep potential cyber risk in check.

Directors, CEOs Trolling Career Sites for Employee Sentiment

By Allison Jacobs

“It is still very much a boys club. Even though half of the sales staff are women, almost all the managers are men. All of the General Managers are also men,” says a current sales executive for Zillow in a recent  Glassdoor review pictured to the right.

Online employee reviews on job search sites have long been helpful tools for employees, but top corporate leaders are increasingly finding them essential.

Take, Evelyn Dilsaver, a board director at Tempur-Pedic and Protiviti. 

Compensation Committee Strategies in a Trump Era

Transitions Canada

The conference created for business families by business families.
 
Join us in Toronto this fall for Family Business Magazine’s Transitions Canada.
 
After overwhelming success in both the US and Mexico, Transitions will hold its first Canadian event Sept. 13-15, 2017 at The Radisson Admiral Toronto Harbourfront.

Executives Not Confident in Employee Ethics

This month is the 15-year anniversary of the groundbreaking financial regulation Sarbanes-Oxley expected to improve corporate ethics, but unfortunately few executives have a high confidence their employees are doing the right thing.

Those are the findings of a recently released report from Deloitte that found “only 32.5% of C-suite and other execs polled are highly confident their organizations’ employees will report unethical behavior.”

The report, which surveyed more than 900 executive, revealed that despite regulations, employees face challenges when it comes to compliance because of: