Six years after high-profile corporate scandals rocked American business, there has been little if any meaningful reduction in the enterprise-wide risk of unethical behaviour at US companies, according to the 2007 National Business Ethics Survey by the Ethics Resource Center, a nonprofit organisation for the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. Conflicts of interest, abusive behavior and lying pose the most severe ethics risks to companies today, the report says. Over the past year, more than half (56 percent) of the 2,000 US employees surveyed had personally observed violations of company ethics standards, policy or the law. More than two of five employees (42 percent) who witnessed misconduct did not report it through any company channels. The study also found that less than 40 percent of employees are aware of comprehensive ethics and compliance programs at their companies.
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