On October 19, 2009
Test Yourself: Would You Act Unethically on the Job?
You’d like to think that even under pressure, your moral compass would keep you from doing anything unethical at work. Only unscrupulous types get caught up in things like backdating stock options and peddling subprime mortgages — right? But Babson College scholar Mary Gentile says acting ethically isn’t as easy as wanting to do the right thing; it’s about knowing how to do the right thing even when the stakes are high. Practice helps. More than 80 business schools around the world are pilot testing a new approach to teaching ethics developed by Gentile, along with the Aspen Institute and Yale School of Management. The idea is simple: Teach MBAs to anticipate how they will be tempted to rationalize unethical…
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