In light if Enron, WorldCom, LeisureNet and other similar cases, are we in a time when business is less ethical?
Interestingly, the data seem to contradict common perceptions. One large-scale survey of employees across all types of organisations in the US (The Ethics Resource Center’s 2003 National Business Ethics Survey – NBES) suggests that employees overall would disagree. Employees state that their own organisations are more ethical now than was reported in 2000. The Enrons of the world have done terrible damage and attracted a good deal of attention, but it appears that, generally speaking, organisations continue to pay more attention to ethics, impose higher standards and act ethically more often now than in the recent past.
