The potential costs of unethical behaviour are extremely high. It can badly hurt a company's reputation — and sometimes ends in a lawsuit.
Still, year after year there are cases ranging from minor fraud at a small business to giant accounting scandals that have rocked the business world.
In the new white-paper Why Good People Sometimes Do Bad Things: 52 Reflections On Ethics At Work, Rotterdam School of Management professor Muel Kaptein explores the behavioural and psychological reasons why people step over the line. Here are a few of his key insights on how lapses occur, and what businesses can do to promote a more ethical culture.
See full Article: http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/management/why-good-employees-do-bad-things-20121004-270k3.html
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