Our Concept

Synergy

At our institute, training, consulting, and research are not separate areas of work. They benefit from one another. The members of our institute have years of experience in research, consulting, and training. This allows us to provide our clients with services informed by the current state of research. Whenever new issues emerge that have yet to be explored, we pursue them.

Interdisciplinarity

No one knows everything, but collectively we can provide many answers. Each member of the institute is a proven expert in his or her field. Whenever the individual reaches his or her limits, interdisciplinary exchange with others ensures success.

At our institute, we see the connections between corruption and data manipulation, between corruption and other criminal offenses such as embezzlement, but also between corruption and organization.

Our Approach

To prevent corruption, the same set of organizational instruments is always recommended. Among these are the multiple-person rule (i.e., mutual control among colleagues) and the rotation principle (i.e., the regular replacement of personnel in at-risk positions).

All theoretical disputes notwithstanding, common corruption prevention practice seems to rely primarily on random checks or personal relationships of trust between superiors and their staff. Most emphasis, however, is placed on formal bodies of rules, which can in fact be in constant conflict with the reality of administrative practice and, for this reason, may be of rather little significance to corruption prevention.

However, prevention policies of a purely organizational nature or that rely on personal relationships of trust and random checks fail to live up to the challenges of modern forms of corruption. We therefore propose taking a closer look at the foundations of corruptive relationships from a social science perspective and then at the specific workplace. Our approach is to conduct a vulnerability analysis for every single workplace [potentially] at risk, because general prevention measures, some of which tend to lack much binding force, have become increasingly ineffective.