Meric Craig Bloch (mbloch@shrinenet.org) is Corporate Director, Investigations for Shriners Hospitals for Children. He has conducted over 400 workplace investigations of fraud and serious workplace misconduct, and is an author and a frequent public speaker on the workplace investigations process.
Sometimes conducting an investigation seems like the apocryphal story about the guy who wins the lottery only to find out about all the friends he never knew he had. Most of the time, people want to get as far away from your inquiry as possible. But what happens when your colleagues want to get involved?