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Article: HR Professionals Believe Ethical Conduct not Rewarded in Business; Professionals Feel Pressure to Compromise Standards
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- April 21, 2003
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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 ...