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Advantages Of Prevention Of Bribery Ordinance

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According to the definition of advantage in Prevention Of Bribery Ordinance, "Advantage" includes money, gifts, loans, commissions, offices, contracts, services, favours and discharge of liability in whole or in part, but does not include entertainment. "Entertainment" means the provision of food or drink, for consumption on the occasion when it is provided, and of any other entertainment provided at the same time, for example singing and dancing. Although the acceptance of entertainment does not breach the POBO, individual departments will still stipulate the conditions for staff’s acceptance of entertainment. Before the employee received red-packets from clients in Chinese New Year, the employee must follow the staff code of conduct. The staff code of …show more content…

Also, the employee can directly send the advantage to the person in charge of the company for acceptance procedure. Otherwise, the offeror may commit the offence of offering bribes and the acceptor may commit the offence of accepting bribes. Conflict of interests is a situation in which a person has a duty to more than one person or organization, but cannot do justice to the actual or potentially adverse interests of both parties. This includes when an individual's personal interests or concerns are inconsistent with the best for a customer, or when a public official's personal interests are contrary to his/her loyalty to public business. These exist the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or public interest. The employee has competing interests or loyalties. An employee who works for one company but who may have personal interests that compete with his/her employment. To reduce or eliminate the conflict of interests, two actions are the most essential: Avoid and Declare. Prevention is better than a cure. Prevention also is to

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