Unethical behaviour on the rise in SA according to new survey
The Ethics Institute (TEI) has recently published its 2019 South African Business Ethics Survey (SABES). It found an increase in unethical behaviour at work: from 18% in 2009, to 25% in 2016, to 31% in 2019. The number of employees who saw and reported this increased from 48% in 2016 to 55% in 2019.
The TimesLive notes that 2,253 respondents from 19 private-sector organisations in the banking, finance, medical services, mining, tourism and hospitality, wholesale and retail, insurance and business services, and information and communications technology (ICT) industries participated in the online survey and telephonic interviews between October 2018 and March 2019.
According to the paper almost 60% respondents were non-managerial employees, 30% were middle management and the remaining 10% were executives or directors. Over a third (38.5%) were between the ages of 31 and 40, and most (58%) were male.