Antitrust and Anti-Competitive Practices
Why Train on This Topic?
Strong competition in industry allows organizations
to compete on measures such as the quality and innovativeness of their
products, the skills and efforts of their employees, and the soundness
of their business and pricing strategies. In a freely competitive
market, each competing business will try to gain consumers by cutting
its prices, increasing the quality of its product or services, and
finding more efficient means of production.
When
competitors agree to fix prices, rig bids, or allocate customers,
consumers lose the benefits of competition. Such anti-competitive
restraints threaten the health of the marketplace and lessen choice and
value to consumers. Whether inadvertent or intentional, violation of
antitrust law can result in grave consequences for the organization as
well as for the individual.
Brightline's online course, Antitrust and Anti-Competitive Practices,
teaches users to identify situations that could raise antitrust
concerns and provides guidance on how to interact with competitors and
other business-related associations.
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Who Should Take This Course?
Any employee involved in sales, marketing, business
development, pricing, bidding, purchasing, or communications with
competitors and suppliers.
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Course Content
The course explores anti-competitive practices such as:
- Price-Fixing: Two or more sellers agree that they will increase prices a certain amount, or that they won't sell below a certain price
- Bid-Rigging:
Two or more firms agree not to bid against each other to supply
products or services to government agencies, or they agree on the level
of their individual bids
- Market Allocation: Two or more firms agree not to compete with each other by dividing sales territories or allocating customers
Users will learn practical skills for identifying questionable activities that could put the organization at
risk, including:
- communications with competitors and subcontractors
- joint development projects
- activity in associations
The course also describes the consequences of violating antitrust provisions for the organization and for the individual.
The
course includes several scenarios and interactive exercises designed to
focus the learner's attention on difficult, "gray area" situations that
they may encounter in real life.
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Customization
The course can easily be customized to include an
audio-visual message from an official in your organization and
instruction on your organization's specific policies relating to
antitrust and anti-competitive practices.
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Print a Flyer
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To Learn More
To view a demo or learn more about this course, call Brightline Compliance at (800) 331-7965 or contact us.
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