A new global business ethics survey released Friday by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative seeks to explain what factors contribute to employee pressure to compromise ethical policies or regulations and how to reduce that pressure.
The ECI’s 2020 “Global Business Ethics Survey” (GBES) explores six types of misconduct: abusive or intimidating behavior; conflicts of interest; corruption; discrimination; sexual harassment; and health and/or safety violations. Employees that indicated pressure to bend the rules in their response were also more than twice as likely to observe misconduct.
