TIPA Launches Intensive 'Ethical Management' Implementation Program

Leading Identification and Implementation of 41 Integrity Self-Practice Tasks Including Sending Integrity Letters Within the Year

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] The Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs (TIPA) announced that it will discover and promote high-intensity "Integrity Self-Practice Tasks" to spread a culture of integrity and establish ethical management.

By the first half of the year, 41 tasks across 4 areas were identified as integrity self-practice tasks, and all TIPA departments will participate, each taking charge of at least one practice task within the year.

Representative tasks include △ operating and promoting TIPA's anonymous reporting system to prevent corruption, △ disclosing recruitment status information to enhance transparency and reliability in the hiring process, △ preparing guidelines and preventing excessive travel expense claims through improvements in employee business trip-related systems, and △ enhancing fairness in selection evaluations.

Meanwhile, TIPA took the lead in practicing ethical management by becoming the first domestic R&D specialized institution to acquire ISO 37001 certification, the international standard for anti-corruption management systems, in 2017, and renewing the same certification last December.

Lee Jae-hong, President of TIPA, emphasized, "Through the promotion of integrity self-practice tasks this year, we plan to strengthen internal monitoring of vulnerable areas and improve systems and environments where corruption could occur," adding, "We will continue to make our best efforts to proactively fulfill our social responsibilities as a public institution."

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