When it comes to the potential for employees to engage in non-compliant behavior in the workplace, the risk is great. Through the longitudinal Global Business Ethics Survey® (GBES®), the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) regularly tracks the extent to which employees are in situations that result in non-compliance. We also identify the business practices that reduce the likelihood of future wrongdoing. Now more than ever, employees are being exposed to situations that result in wrongdoing. More employees are observing actual acts of non-compliance than in the 29 years of ECI’s GBES research. There is a known and proven solution … so what’s the bottom line? Unless organizations take action by implementing high-quality ethics & compliance programs, they are 467% more likely to experience non-compliance in their operations.
