Training is the fastest growing of all components in ethics programs, jumping by 111 percent in three years. Ethical risk . They're also working with new technologies that leverage single unethical decisions into massive calamities. Here, clearly, is where reputational risk resides. So the report's authors are to be forgiven for occasionally stepping outside a buttoned-up analytical tone and offering strong, even stern, recommendations.
Wrongdoing can and does occur at all levels in organizations, and in all functions.
Furthermore, where training is restricted to some employees only this may foster a divisive 'them and us' culture. As we've reported in Newsline over the last several years, young professionals place an extremely high premium on working in ethical firms . It seems fair to say that any firm willing to absorb the findings of this report and create a distinctive ethical culture will be better able to draw from the deep end of the talent pool. That, of course, will increase its ethical reputation. That will attract even more talent, which will further increase its reputation.