Monday, July 29, 2013

CISM Stakeholders Outreach Program


The Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) organizes its two-day outreach program, meeting and discussing with stakeholders on the issues of corporate integrity system Malaysia (CISM).  Recently, the Malaysian Government announced on the need of public sector organizations to set up their integrity unit or department.  In support of IIM's drive to promote corporate integrity at workplaces, the Accounting Research Institute (ARI) has established a research cluster called "Corporate Integrity System Research Cluster".  ARI researchers, together with a few other academics from Universiti Sains Malaysia, INCEIF and Nottingham University (Malaysia campus) helped to develop an instrument to assess corporate integrity at workplaces.  Known as "Corporate Integrity Assessment Questionnaire or CIAQ", public and private organisations in Malaysia can do their own assessment.  To ensure effectiveness, the questionnaire needs to be filled by between 30-50 respondents, comprising employees of various management levels.  Today, IIM organizes a two-day outreach program to explain the CIAQ instrument to various stakeholders of public and private organisations.  ARI director, Professor Dr Normah Omar and Dr Salleh Hassan from SIDC have been tasked to share the findings of two organisations who participated in the Corporate Integrity System assessment.  A total of fifty participants attended the event.