What’s that, you say? You want yet another practical example of how ethical conduct can help your business, to convince that skeptical board member or business unit leader? Look no further than the city of London today.
There, two things happened this morning. First Transparency International released its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, a sweeping study of bribery and corruption worldwide. The GCB surveyed 114,000 people in 107 countries, and to no surprise found that most people around the world believe corruption is on the rise. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they had paid a bribe sometime in the last 12 months, and institutions such as the police, judiciary, and political parties are all seen as corrupt in one nation after another.
