Conflicts of interest, gifts and speaking up
Everyday integrity for all staff: spotting and declaring conflicts of interest, handling gifts and hospitality under your policy, recognizing bribery risks (with the UK Bribery Act 2010 and the US FCPA as examples), and raising concerns through the right channel. Awareness only: your organization's policy sets the limits and approvals, and local law applies.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 40 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Recognize actual, potential and perceived conflicts of interest and declare them
- Decide whether a gift or hospitality offer needs declaring, approval or refusal under a policy
- Recognize bribery red flags, including facilitation payments and payments through third parties
- Tell a concern that should be raised through speak-up or whistleblowing channels from a personal grievance
- Raise a concern with facts, dates and evidence, without investigating it yourself
Course outline
- 1.Conflicts, gifts and speaking upVideo · 3 min
- 2.Conflicts of interestLesson · 13 min
- 3.Gifts, hospitality and briberyLesson · 15 min
- 4.Speaking upLesson · 12 min
- 5.Conflicts of interest, gifts and speaking up: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- UK Ministry of Justice: Bribery Act 2010 guidance to help commercial organisations prevent bribery (UK example)
- CPS / SFO: Bribery Act 2010 joint prosecution guidance (facilitation payments, hospitality)
- US DOJ / SEC: A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Second Edition (US example)
- GOV.UK: Whistleblowing for employees (UK example)
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