The Role of Leaders in Influencing Unethical Behavior in the Workplace Linda Klebe Treviño Michael E. Brown A fter years of focusing on explaining and predicting positive employee attitudes (e.g.‚ job satisfaction‚ employee commitment) and behaviors (e.g.‚ employee citizenship‚ work performance)‚ organizational behavior researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding what drives costly misconduct in organizations (Bennett & Robinson‚ 2000; Giacalone & Greenberg‚ 1997;
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Wal-Mart: Ethical or Unethical? Almost everyone living in North America undoubtedly knows what Wal-Mart is and has already conceived some sort of opinion‚ whether it is good or bad. On one hand people complain that they are ruining competition‚ they are treating their employees’ terribly or that they are given extreme unfair advantages that no other company receives. However‚ on the other spectrum there are those that believe in the free market‚ as well as those that say Wal-Mart is cutting down
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How is gold mining considered as unethical socially and environmentally? Ahmed Baobaid COL - 145 - 901 Derick Singh Ahmed Baobaid Zayed University Imagine what it is like to destroy the life of different species simply for a shiny precious metal‚ which people value. Gold is one of the most sought after commodities in the world. Its unique yellow color creates the difference with other kinds of metal. People give gold monetary and symbolic value‚ although it is just a tiny
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Checkpoint 1 Impacts of Unethical Behavior The company that I researched for unethical practices is Tyco International; the nature of the controversy was the fraud and scandals that Tyco international has gone through. In 1999 the SEC began to analyze Tyco’s accounting practices do to the company was standing in 28 million dollars in debt. They were able to pinpoint many areas that were not adding up with the amounts money was being taken and there was really no good explanation. They found out
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Before the era of Gerber‚ in the 1910’s and 1920’s a movement began to introduce fruits and vegetables to enrich and supplement a baby’s diet in conjunction with breast feeding. Mrs. Gerber‚ wife of Dan Gerber who owned Fremont Canning Company‚ came up with the baby food idea while attempting to strain fruits and vegetable for her own child. Since the family owned a canning company it made sense to utilize those resources to create baby products. In the late 1920’s the company had created several
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Unethical Companies: Coca-Cola April 28‚ 2010 Coca-Cola is the largest soda provider in the world. Although it is widely consumed‚ many people are unaware of its labor violations. The company has come under fire in the last few months for the way in which its workers are treated in Guatemala. The primary source of all the violence is the workers’ union. On February 25‚ 2010‚ Coke was sued by those Guatemalan laborers‚ who claim that they‚ “endured a campaign of violence” from the people who worked
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During WWII a number of germans physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of prisoners in the concentration camps.(www.ushmm.org) they tortured the prisoners without their consent. Unethical medical experiments carried out during the Third Reich are divided into three categories. these are horrible things that the nazis did that are non human nad are hard to hear about. The first category is the military killing and murdering the jews and the homeless and the disabled
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One of the primary concerns a psychologist must address when preparing to carry out an experiment are the effects‚ both short and long term‚ of the experiment on the subjects. Some experiments positively affect the subjects and need not be debated‚ but those that have the possibility to create negative short or long-term effects in the subjects must be reviewed thoroughly. There are several general guidelines that have been set to determine whether an experiment is ethical. A small degree of suffering
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On average obese employees pay higher health premiums and receive a higher out-of-pocket cost‚ increasing about $1000 (Christianson). This process of increasing the premium of someone who is obese is quite unethical in my eyes. I believe it to be unethical because for many who are obese‚ it normally runs in the family or they acquired it over past years‚ but it is a hard process to lower a person’s BMI to a level where they are not considered obese. Raising prices on someone who
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services are important to the public‚ worker morale and behaviors‚ as well as what they can do to set themselves apart from the competition. However‚ wrong methods and/or unethical research conduct can obscure results and lead to the damage of a companies’ process‚ financial statue and image. An example of unethical business research can be found in the 2004 discrimination lawsuit against the restaurant Cracker Barrel. A number of bad research methods contributed to the courts’ order
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