Strategies and checklists for organisations

We recommend your organisation develop and implement strategies to:

• reduce the number of conflicts of interest that occur
• ensure that when conflicts of interest arise they are identified and dealt with in the public interest.

If you’re involved in managing your organisation’s approach to conflict of interest, we recommend the following strategies. There’s a handy checklist to start with. It’s a pointer to some of our main strategy recommendations.

 

• Checklist for organisations

  A conflict of interest management checklist for organisations.

• Conflict of interest policy

  Ensure your organisation has a suitable policy in place to deal with conflicts of interest when they arise and effective procedures to assist your employees to follow the policy.

• Areas of high risk

  To help ensure your organisation has a suitable conflict of interest policy for its employees, identify its high risk areas for conflict of interest.

• Culture of integrity

  A foundation strategy is to build a culture of integrity within the organisation.

• Preventative strategies

  We recommend your organisation develop preventative strategies to lessen the likelihood of a conflict of interest arising in the first place.

• Risk mitigation strategies

  Your organisation’s conflict of interest policy needs to include suitable risk mitigation strategies for dealing with conflicts of interest when they arise.

• Informing and advising employees

  Effective strategies for preventing and dealing with conflicts of interest – particularly if combined with a culture of integrity

• Alleged breaches

  Your organisation should have processes in place to ensure that alleged breaches of its conflict of interest policy are dealt with.

• Administrating, monitoring and evaluating your policy

  Understanding your obligations to manage your organisation's policy.

• Victorian Public Service (VPS) procurement

  This guidance only applies to the Victorian Public Service (departments, administrative offices and the VPSC).
  It doesn't apply to the broader public sector such as public entities.