Why?

Corruption where sex is the currency often falls through the cracks, despite undermining trust in your organisation and damaging your brand. By complementing your anti-corruption efforts, you can advance your organisation’s sustainability goals while ensuring effective risk management and transparency throughout the value chain.

Five Recommendations

1. Strong Leadership

By preventing corruption where sex is the currency, you help create a safe workplace, build trust in managers and foster an environment where employees feel motivated to do their best. This, in turn, strengthens loyalty, a sense of belonging and engagement.

2. Support your Employees

Active measures against corruption where sex is the currency position your organisation as an attractive employer, foster a healthy organisational culture and help prevent the loss of valuable talent. It reduces employee vulnerability and helps create a more inclusive organisation.

3. Gain Cutting-Edge Competence

In 2023, abuse of power for sexual gain was included in a resolution to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. By staying up to date with the latest knowledge, you can turn words into action and add the missing piece to your anti-corruption efforts.

4. Use Resources Efficiently

By preventing corruption that involves sex as a currency, you help ensure that your organisation’s human, organisational, and economic resources are used as efficiently as possible. This can reduce sick-leave and loss of valuable skills, strengthen competitiveness, and support sustainable growth.

5. Strengthen Your Brand

Systematically preventing corruption that involves sex as a currency strengthens trust in your organisation and its brand among customers and clients, employees, and stakeholders. Scandals involving this type of corruption can have far-reaching consequences and cause serious damage to your organisation’s reputation.

BLEC offers tools to complement your anti-corruption efforts by including the missing piece: corruption involving sex as the currency.