Managers say they want their employees to behave ethically. Yet corporate scandals occur with all the regularity of the seasons. If it's not cooking the books, it's fixing prices or selling tainted products. And these are just the scandals that make the news. Trust me, there is a lot of lower level wrongdoing going on, too. So say my executive students.Where do people learn about ethics anyway? An undergraduate student once said in dead seriousness, "My father told me that the great thing about a partnership is that it is much easier to cheat on your taxes." That stunning confession led to a discussion about what other rules of the road the students had learned from their parents. The short answer: Not much. Mostly the students hadn't really talked with their parents. If their families had dinner together, which was rare, they watched TV. "All my parents ever asked about was my grades. They didn't really care how I got them as long as they were good."
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