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Corruption Risks
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Examples:
- Compromised staff accept illegal rebates from food suppliers for ordering excessive food materials.
- Compromised staff accept advantages from colluded food suppliers for conniving at substandard goods and ingredients.
- Procurement staff conspire with suppliers to inflate the prices of goods or falsely report the quantity of goods.
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Examples:
- Colluded staff accept advantages for leaking quotation prices or tender information to favoured suppliers.
- Compromised staff accept advantages from competitors for leaking company’s confidential information, e.g., marketing/promotion activities, customer data, etc.
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Examples:
- Dishonest staff misappropriate restaurant coupons or expensive inventory items for personal gain.
- Frontline staff accept advantages for waiving charges or offering unauthorised discounts to friends.
- Unscrupulous staff embezzle sales proceeds by cancelling a bill/some of the items or not recording without authorisation.
- Dishonest staff pocket discount differences by using their credit cards for payment to replace cash payment by customers.
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Examples:
- Compromised supervisors falsely report the number of temporary employees and collect the excess wages.
- Personnel staff accept advantages from colluded candidates or colleagues for showing favour in appointments, promotions and transfers.
- Compromised managers or supervisors accept advantages from subordinates for showing favour in allocation of duties or performance appraisal.
- Staff submit false documents such as overtime work or sick leave certificate to deceive the employer.
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Examples:
- Staff purchase food materials from suppliers of whom the staff or his relatives have financial interest.
- Kitchen staff monitoring quality and quantity of food supplies accept frequent entertainment from suppliers.
- Supervisors favour friends or relatives in recruitment, promotion, or allocation of duties and overtime work.
- Staff give discounts or waive charges for friends or relatives without endorsement by higher authority.
Ethics Training
The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre provides free anti-corruption and ethics training to help companies in catering industry build an ethical corporate culture and prevent corruption and fraud. Check out the details of the upcoming webinars on BEDC Channel and enrol now!
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Training Objectives
General staff
Stay alert to corruption temptations in daily work
Enhance knowledge of anti-corruption law
Acquire skills to make ethical decision
Training Objectives
Managers
Stay alert to managerial role in preventing corruption
Acquire skills to identify and manage corruption risks at daily work
Procure useful tips to manage staff integrity
Training Objectives
Senior Management
Enhance awareness on role of ethical leadership
Stay alert to common red flags and corruption loopholes
Procure good practices in preventing corruption and building ethical culture
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Contact us if your company is interested in arranging anti-corruption or ethics training.
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Self-learning animation video and user-friendly interactive webpage are available for self-learning:

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