Hugh Kay Lecture: Standards in Public Life - Are we in a Post-Nolan age?
View the recording of our webinar.
12 November 2020
Recent Surveys on Business Ethics
Read the IBE's summary of the latest surveys on business ethics.
20 May 2020
Embedding Business Ethics: 2020 report on corporate ethics policies and programmes
This report is the ninth in the triennial series looking at corporate ethics policies and programmes. It is the IBE’s longest-running survey series, and continues to give valuable insights into how companies run their ethics programmes.
01 April 2020
Workplace Dignity - Willis Towers Watson
Willis Towers Watson conducted this survey with the charity Robert F Kennedy Human Rights with the aim of measuring the perspectives of senior leaders engaged in aspects of building sustainable human capital strategies and healthy company cultures while improving organisational performance.
05 February 2020
Now is the right time to look at your culture
Ethical failures in business continue to happen with depressing regularity. Unfortunately, many organisations are only spurred to look at their culture and take the steps to embed ethical values at the heart of their decision making after things have gone badly wrong and customers, shareholders and colleagues have suffered as a result.
05 February 2020
Edelman Trust Barometer 2020
This is the 20th annual trust and credibility survey, conducted by Edelman. It is an online survey that covers over 34,000 respondents in 28 markets worldwide. This year, the Edelman Trust Barometer focuses on what has been defined as the trust paradox.
19 January 2020
Ethics and values are at the heart of a sustainable culture
David Grayson: I am delighted to take on the chairmanship of IBE. Ethics and values are at the heart of creating a sustainable culture.
02 April 2019
Using Behavioural Ethics to improve your Ethics Programme
This IBE Research Report focuses on how people make decisions and what can influence them.
10 April 2018
Ethics Ambassadors: promoting ethics on the front line
How can an organisation support large numbers of employees in multiple locations in doing the right thing when faced with an ethical dilemma?
06 April 2017
Corporate Ethics Policies and Programmes: 2016 UK and Continental Europe survey
This triennial survey provides an overview of how ethics is embedded within large organisations that operate in the UK and Continental Europe.
26 January 2017
The Role and Effectiveness of Ethics and Compliance Practitioners
This report provides refreshing insights into the purpose and activities of this relatively new role. Based on interviews with practitioners, it considers the skills required and the scope and capacity of E&C practitioners to have strategic influence on ‘business as usual’.
25 September 2014
Collaboration Between the Ethics Function and HR
When embedding ethical values into organisational culture, the roles of the company Ethics and HR functions can frequently overlap. It is important therefore that they work together effectively to ensure this happens.
30 April 2014
Corporate Ethics Policies and Programmes: 2013 UK and Continental Europe survey
This triennial survey provides an overview of how ethics is embedded within large organisations that operate in the UK and Continental Europe.
11 December 2013
Globalising a Business Ethics Programme
This practical guide provides advice on assessing whether existing ethics programmes are effective and culturally appropriate and developing and disseminating organisation-wide values and standards to take account of the many cultures in which a business operates, including training which is as culturally relevant to employees worldwide.
01 May 2012
Ethics Ambassadors
This practical Guide explains the role of Ethics Ambassadors in contributing to the success of an ethics programme and helping to promote a consistent ethical business culture. Drawing on the experience of UK and international companies it highlights how the role of an ethics ambassador can help organisations understand what ethics ambassadors are and how they can be recruited and supported effectively. The guide includes a set of practical tools for training and evaluating the efficacy of ethics ambassadors.
10 October 2010