General Article Ethics at work

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2015 survey of employees in Britain.

By Daniel Johnson

 

Summary and conclusion

This fourth IBE British Ethics at Work report has explored the attitudes and perceptions of British employees of ethical standards and behaviours in their workplace. The results in this report provide insight into the state of business ethics in British organisations in 2015. It has also shown how the view of British employees towards ethics in the workplace has shifted over time.

The findings show that between 2012 and 2015 there has not been a significant shift in the experiences of British employees of ethics at work:

  • the practice of honesty is still considered to be prevalent with more than four-fifths of employees saying that honesty is practised always or frequently in their organisation
  • a consistent fifth say that they has been aware of misconduct over the previous year
  • only half of employees aware of misconduct continue to raise their concerns, and
  • only 8% say that they had felt pressured to com...

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