An Internal Audit Department adopts a training posture that provides training to management on fraud awareness, including an overview of the corporate fraud policy and hotline. This training posture best demonstrates that the Internal Audit Department is taking which of the four leadership roles?
- Path finding, which focuses on a purpose and how to achieve it.
- Aligning, which focuses on how to align systems and processes to achieve a purpose.
- Empowering, which focuses on how to cultivate people to have the right authority, responsibility, and commitment to best help achieve a purpose.
- Modeling, which focuses on how to demonstrate the values to convince others to follow an example and take responsibility for achieving a purpose.
Answer(s): C
Explanation:
Empowering is the best answer because fraud awareness training as noted in the question provides individuals with the information and guidance they need to take responsibility and commit to tasks required to achieve a purpose. Fraud awareness training makes sure they know policy and how to report suspected issues.