World Bank employee survey on whistle blowing

[Ichingcarpenter]

Less than half of the World Bank’s staff feel they can report misconduct without fear of retaliation, a level far below a benchmark set for the private sector, according to an internal survey of employees completed last month.

Collectively, the survey results also depicted a work force where large numbers believed their superiors valued deals and loans over actually reducing poverty and where promotions often did not depend on merit.

Only a third believed that senior management created “a culture of openness and trust.”

The survey comes at a time of uneasiness among rank-and-file as the bank proceeds with a cross-cutting structural reorganization, part of reforms promised by its president, Jim Kim.

But the results appeared to bolster the intensifying public criticism of ethical failures in World Bank projects around the world, which together account for tens of billions of dollars in loans and assistance to poor countries every year.

Though its work affects countless people, the World Bank enjoys legal immunity in the countries where it operates, meaning conscientious objections from within can sometimes be the only means of redress.

Much more:


http://100r.org/2014/03/world-bank-staff-fear-blowing-whistle-survey-finds/

[Wilms]

1. ^

[Agony]

2. Neoliberalism at its finest...

"By late last year, though, over a hundred people in peasant farmer communities had been killed in a violent land conflict. Allegations tied 40 of the killings to the bank-supported Honduras project itself."

We need more contractors

"Edwards said many career service members feared replacement by contractors and consultants, while temporary staff also feared losing their livelihoods as well.

“You’d have to be in a very strange frame of mind to be on a one-year contract and report something over your supervisor’s head that implicates him,” she said.

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[LibertyLover]

3. Tuesday, my department has

a meeting to discuss how we answered the survey and to try and come up with suggestions for our VP on how to move forward. At least there will be coffee, tea and pastries. And honestly, canvas any large corporation and you,would get similar results. These days with jobs scarce, nobody is going to make waves, so it's not just the Bank Group.