Required Ethics Training

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According to a 1999 study, approximately 30 percent of U.S. employees suspected that ethical violations had occurred in their organizations in the two years prior to the survey. However, almost half of the people who witness ethical violations fail to report them. The reasons for non-reporting are myriad, but seem to be dominated by fears of retaliation or not being taken seriously. By reviewing research on this topic, this paper shows that ethical training is more than a dog and pony show. Ethical training, when done appropriately, produces a plethora of positive benefits for the employer. Of equal importance is the fact that ethical training and compliance programs, when implemented and maintained correctly, provide a wide-variety of benefits to employees, as well as employers. The paper shows that benefits include an increase in ethical behavior, the providing of an atmosphere that is conducive to the reporting of unethical conduct and an increase in a company's competitiveness.

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"Furthermore, employees who work in environments with ethics programs, where their supervisors model the ethical behavior taught and enforced by those programs, indicate that they believe the ethics programs have improved their work experiences. The most remarkable positive outcome associated with employer ethical training may be that employees report feeling less pressured to compromise their personal ethical standards (Joseph, Wan Veer, and McFadden, 2004)."

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