ethical culture

This presents a discussion on how to measure ethical culture.
I just read an interesting article by Scott Moritz of Protiviti. Measuring Ethical Culture – Tapping into Open Secrets is an easy read and covers the main points.
He suggests that employees are more likely than in previous years to answer a survey honestly, assuming that it can be answered anonymously.
I tend to agree, but caution that the willingness of employees to answer such a survey can be influenced by, among other things:

• The culture of the various locations in which the company operates. In some locations, people are reluctant to respond at all, let alone honestly
• Whether they trust the organization to treat their responses anonymously and not to retaliate
• Whether they believe the responses will be assessed honestly
• Whether they believe actions will be taken
• Their prior experience
• …and so on

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