Ethics survey reveals global pandemic of misconduct
The pressures of the Covid-19 crisis are leading companies around the world to compromise ethical standards, researchers warn.
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The strain of managing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has rebounded into company ethics, with employees across the world reporting a deterioration in the behaviour of colleagues around them.
In its annual global survey, US-based body the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) found that across the globe employees are seeing more misconduct, reporting more ethical breaches and coming under great pressure to compromise on ethical standards.
Worse, the ECI concludes that regardless of where an employee works in the world, most do not work in organisations with “strong ethical cultures”. Those responding to the survey report increa
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