Nordic Business Ethics Survey 2022
A study of Nordic employees’ perception of ethics at work
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The Nordic Business Ethics Survey is a pioneering survey into employees’ views on ethics across multiple business sectors and job roles, which was conducted for the first time in 2019.
The 2022 edition of the Survey was extended to Estonia, and now include 5.000 respondents from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Estonia.
2022 survey highlights include:
- Are ethical compromises inevitable? Over half of all respondents say that they have compromised on ethical standards at their workplace during the last year. The survey also reveal interesting differences between age groups and gender.
- Is your organisation ready for an intensifying speak-up culture? We see a significant improvement in how employees intervene in misconduct.
- Senior executives most frequently say they have been retaliated against when raising ethical concerns. How does this impact the culture in our organisations?
- Is your Code of Conduct a wasted investment? Every second employee in a listed company do not recognise that their organisation has a Code of Conduct.
Survey sponsors
We thank our partners for the financial support to conduct Nordic Business Ethics Survey.
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The Swedish Anti-Corruption Institute (Sw: Institutet Mot Mutor “IMM”) is a non-profit organization founded in 1923.
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