General Examples of Workplace Fraud & Ethical Violations

General Examples of Workplace Fraud & Ethical Violations o Accepting payments or gifts from vendors in exchange for business transactions o Adding unauthorized persons to payroll o Altering inventory records to account for lost, misplaced or stolen items o Backdating documents and reports so they appear to have been submitted timely o Claiming hours worked that were spent on personal or unrelated business o Creating duplicate invoices to conceal improper payments o Failing to disclose tobacco use status on benefit forms o Failing to follow hiring and advertising protocols to hire candidate of your choice o Managing a side business during work hours o Misappropriation of assets o Mismanagement of funds (state and grant) o Misuse of purchasing cards to include the purchase of personal items o Misuse of state owned or rented vehicles to include transporting family members o Reporting workplace injury that occurred elsewhere o Seeking reimbursement for expenses not incurred o Surfing the web/watching Hulu or Netflix sites during work hours o Travel reimbursement misstatements o Unauthorized removal of employer property to include tools, equipment and supplies o Waiving fees without authorization

Examples of Unethical Activities in Higher Education o University administrators used institutional vendors to complete work at their personal residences. o Persuading institutional vendors to hire family members. o Faculty members developed products through their university-sponsored research funds, to market or sell the products through their own private companies. o Coaching staff completed course work for athletes in danger of being ineligible. o Employee established a fictitious construction company and charged the college for work not performed. o School's conflict of interest policy breached when faculty members were paid to give promotional speeches on behalf of drug makers. (The concern was that the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers could intentionally influence medical research). o University improperly charged the National Institutes of Health for facilities and administrative costs on more than 400 federal grants.