Ethics Pressure to Compromise Ethics Standards

1. Ethics � Pressure to Compromise Ethics Standards Sample comprised of 407 randomly selected HR professionals. Analyzing 407 of 2967 emails sent, 2698 emails were received (response rate = 15%). Survey fielded March 28 � April 3, 2006; presentation generated on April 4, 2006. Margin of error is +/- 5%.

2. Do you ever feel pressured by other employees or managers to compromise your organization's standards of ethical business conduct in order to achieve business objectives?

3. Do you ever feel pressured by other employees or managers to compromise your organization's standards of ethical business conduct in order to achieve business objectives?

4. Pressure to Compromise Ethics Standard by Organization Size

5. What are the principal causes of these pressures you feel compromise your organization's standards of ethical business conduct?

6. Other Other employees or managers not understanding standards or ramifications of their desired actions. Managers or employees wanting to help an employee in personal financial need. Conflict in practice and policy Dealing with clients whose ethics aren't as rigorously applied as our own. Dept heads trying to inflate jobs to garner raises for their staff Emotional responses to individual circumstances I work with the law if I was pressured I could not only loose my job but I could go to jail. Lack of focus and planning by Leadership. Not using Lean Techniques and other proven business methods to prevent or fix problems. Lack of understanding by executives or managers that there are legal obligations; keeping your job Lack of understanding regarding processes. By educating the requestor we can then stay within our ethical requirements and policies. Restrictive and illogical policies/procedures - for example submitting travel reimbursements that require that you itemize what everyone had for dinner Unknowledgeable management staff