Launch Events: 1st Nordic Business Ethics Survey Results, April 2019
FRA, in cooperation with professional network, Nordic Business Ethics Network; Sweden-based law firm, Mannheimer Swartling; and The Swedish Anti-Corruption Institute, Institutet Mot Mutor are delighted to announce that the results of the 1st Nordic Business Ethics Survey will be published at three launch events in Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm on 3, 8 and 9 April 2019.
The Nordic Business Ethics Survey is a pioneering survey into employees' views on ethics across multiple business sectors and job roles. It is the first survey of its kind and asks questions such as:
- What types of unethical behaviors have you experienced or witnessed at work?
- Do you feel comfortable speaking up of a potential misconduct?
- Do leaders and employees play by the same rules?
The results will be published by Anna Romberg and Niina Ratsula, the initiators of Nordic Business Ethics Network and discussed with an expert panel. Event keynote speaker and panelists include:
Richard Bistrong, CEO, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC and Keynote speaker
Richard advises global companies on current anti-bribery challenges from his experience as a sales executive. His keynote speech will be on: Behind the Bribe: A Journey to the Dark Side of International Business, Real-World Risk and Real-World Lessons.
Viivi Lajunen, Nordic Director, FRA
Viivi is a Director in FRA's Helsinki office. She has almost 10 years of experience working on complex investigations, damage calculations, compliance audits and contentious insolvency as well as accounting malpractice issues. She has also acted as an expert witness and as a speaker at numerous industry events.
Tytti Saarinen, Nordic Director, FRA
Tytti is a Director in FRA's Helsinki office and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with a proven track record in fraud investigations, forensic accounting, contentious insolvency and financial reporting. She has also acted as an expert witness and as a speaker in a number of industry forums.
Business ethics is not an issue - before it is. The debate regarding right and wrong conduct, of what is ethical, of how companies, leaders and employees are expected to behave is a hot topic. Current media enables a transparency that quickly reveal if the actual behaviour and operations are not in line with what is expected.
To find out more about the survey or to attend a survey launch, click the event links below:
3 April: Helsinki: Nordic Business Ethics Survey Launch8 April: Oslo: Nordic Business Ethics Survey Launch9 April: Stockholm: Nordic Business Ethics Survey Launch
About the Nordic Business Ethics survey
Anna Romberg and Niina Ratsula, the initiators of Nordic Business Ethics Network launched an open weblink based survey called ethics@work Nordics in early December 2018, with a primary intention to increase the discussion around business ethics in the Nordics. They wanted to provide some insight into how employees perceive the ethics at their current and/or past workplace. The pilot study received over 200 responses in Finland and Sweden and soon after its launch it became very clear that this topic really had momentum.
Based on the feedback we received for the survey, they decided to take the survey one step further and partnered with Kantar TNS to collect an additional 1500 responses via Kantar TNS's certified survey methodology to cover all-together three Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden and Norway. The new survey name is Nordic Business Ethics Survey.
