Maintaining diversity and ethics practices is important to most small businesses who want to gain the loyalty of employees and trust of consumers. According to Joshua Joseph of the Ethics Resource Center, ethics training is becoming an increasingly popular trend in business, helping to align staff efforts with the organization's broader vision.

Nigeria is often regarded as one of the most populous industrially developing nations in the world and richly endowed with abundant human and natural resources. However, most of the economic drawbacks of the nation may be attributable to the apparent inability of the organizations to perform optimally. No matter the type of organization, chances are that people’s actions, inactions or counteractions could be a threat to its corporate performance, existence and ultimate survival. It has been opined that many modern work organizations have people of variegated cultural backgrounds working together as employees which may be a potential source of organizational conflict (Ukachukwu and Iherionhamma, 2013).