Five Key Culture Indicators to Measure Compliance

Compliance programs have traditionally relied on activity metrics such as training completion rates, policy attestations and hotline volumes. Increasingly, however, organizations – and regulators – are seeking deeper insights into compliance culture, including whether employees understand their obligations, feel empowered to raise concerns and trust the organization’s compliance framework. To answer these questions, companies can collect quantitative data about five key compliance culture indicators to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their programs. This article synthesizes insights from a panel at the SCCE Data Analytics for Compliance Programs conference, held in August 2026, about how to transform employee perceptions into measurable indicators that can help legal and compliance teams identify risks, target remediation efforts and demonstrate program effectiveness. See “A Step-by-Step Approach to Upleveling Compliance Analytics” (Jul. 2, 2025).

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