Article: HR Professionals Believe Ethical Conduct not Rewarded in Business; Professionals Feel Pressure to Compromise Standards

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Amidst numerous corporate ethics violations over the last year, a new survey indicates that nearly half of HR professionals believe ethical conduct is not rewarded in business today. Troubling figures show that over the last five years, HR professionals feel increasingly more pressure to compromise their organizations' ethics standards, however they also indicate personally observing significantly fewer actions of misconduct in the workplace.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) jointly conducted the 2003 Business Ethics Survey, with 462 respondents yielding a 22 percent response rate. The ...

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