Consequences of Noncompliance
- Fines, penalties, and legal fees
- Media coverage and blemished reputation
- Imposed compliance “settlements”
- More regulatory and audit agency scrutiny
- Management time and effort required to perform damage control
- Management turnover
- Lower faculty and staff morale
- Increased bureaucracy and lower efficiency
- Lingering effects …
- Guilt by association: when one of us is tarred, we all wear the feathers