BUSINESSES FAILING IN DUTY TO DETER CRIME AND PROMOTE HONESTY, SAYS REPORT
July 1st, 2017
Businesses must do more to set a good ethical example and create workplace cultures that promote and reward ethical behaviour, says the UK Fraud Advisory Panel’s latest report, ‘Businesses behaving badly: fraud, corporate culture and ethics’. The July 4 report underlines: “Career fraudsters are one thing, but many serious ethical breaches are committed by people who genuinely think they are ‘just doing their job’.” It calls on business leaders to do more to understand why ‘good’ people do bad things and consider how an organisation’s culture ...
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