Ethical Dilemmas

According to the Ethics Resource Center: 45% of employees say they witness ethical misconduct at work in 2011. Out of those employees, 65% reported the misconduct to management.  34% of employees said their managers behaved unethically.

Employees witness the following behaviors at work:

• Misuse of company time 33%
• Discrimination 15%
• Health/safety violations 13%
• Lying to outside shareholders 12%
• Stealing 12%
• Falsifying timecards 11%
• Sexual harassment 11%
• Accepting or offering kickbacks/bribes 5%

Talk about employment risks—here they are. The worst being robbing companies of an honest day’s work! To read more information about the survey go to http://www.ethics.org/nbes/