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Like the Enron Era, Ethical Conduct Improves Temporarily During Periods of Economic Stress

Arlington, VA – Do Americans in the workplace behave better in a down economy? Apparently yes, according to the Ethics Resource Center, which today announced the results of its sixth National Business Ethics Survey® (NBES).

Ethics in the Recession, is available at www.ethics.org/nbes. 

New 6-year survey out from The Ethics Resource Center, which says people are behaving more ethically at work while the economy is slow. 

NBES on public radio’s “The Takeaway"

Sex With Your Boss? Affairs with Co-workers? Why That's Unethical (But Not Everyone Agrees), According to Biennial ERC National Workplace Survey

Reuters (press release) - Arlington, VA

Mark Trumbull for the Christian Science Monitor

"The largest concern for many companies is making sure that they have productive workplaces," says Patricia Harned, president of the Ethics Resource Center. For workers, "what's at stake is their feeling that they [are] rewarded for a job well done and not for any other reasons."

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The air of financial crisis that gripped Washington earlier this summer seems to be waning as health care reform and the gradually improving economy shift the focus of immediate concern.

Still, this fall promises to be plenty busy for financial regulators and lawmakers.  While thousands of Americans who lost their homes, their jobs or their retirement plans continue to fume, official Washington now turns its scrutiny to what went wrong and how to fix it.

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