NEW YORK, March 5, 2020 (Newswire.com) – The Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, today announced the launch of volume three of its Ethical Culture Insights Report series. The report derives insights from Ethisphere’s proprietary Culture Quotient (CQ) data set representing the viewpoints of more than four million employees and reveals a strong correlation between employee perception of the training they receive and their ability to identify basic misconduct.Data shows that employees who believe their company’s training is inadequate are 67 percent less able to identify misconduct than employees who found their company’s training and communications useful.Additionally, they are 157 percent less likely to say they have faith that the company’s rules are the same for everyone.These findings are featured in the new Ethisphere report, called Insights from Our Culture Quotient Data Set: Volume Three – The Case for Investing in Engaging and Effective Training and Communications.The report highlights the impact of training and communications effectiveness on the reporting of misconduct and also how it affects the perceptions of organizational justice. Moreover, the report provides insights into reasons training misses the mark and offers practical guidance and examples of how leading companies make training and communications more effective. The report can be downloaded at https://ethisphere.com/culturereport/.“Our latest data shows how vital it is for training and communications to resonate with employees. If training is ineffective, employees are considerably less likely to spot or report misconduct and more inclined to perceive the company as unjust and not operating with integrity,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Vice President and Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance. “This poor perception of organizational justice can be corrosive, so it behooves a compliance team to identify where that perception might exist and address those concerns.”“In the population of people who found training ineffective, if they did identify misconduct, they were 63 percent less likely to report it than someone who found the training and communication materials helpful, indicating a reluctance among many employees to say something if they notice bad actions in the workplace,” said Scott Stevenson, Senior Analyst, Data and Services. “We also found that only three percent of employees who found the company’s training and communication efforts ineffective made use of any compliance-related reporting channels. This is very significant and indicates that there could be many issues within a company that aren’t being reported.”The Culture Quotient SurveyVolume three of this report examines the data set extracted from responses provided by multinational companies, encompassing more than 585,000 employees around the globe, in 30 languages, representing the views of well over four and a half million employees. From this category-leading compilation of current employee responses, Ethisphere has culled insights to share over the course of three volumes. The Eight Pillars of ethical culture that Ethisphere measures are:
- Awareness of Program and Resources
- Perceptions of the Function
- Observing and Reporting Misconduct
- Pressure
- Organizational Justice
- Manager Perceptions
- Perceptions of Leadership
- Perceptions of Peers and Environment
