Part II. Unethical Managers

Rules Are Made to Be Broken

Unethical behavior is a serious problem in business as well as in most professions. It damages the company's reputation, damages morale, interferes with hiring the best people, and as we saw with Enron, Arthur Anderson, and Worldcom, can bring down a company.

There are a wide number of unethical behaviors that some managers engage in at work.

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Some of these are common practices. Others are eschewed by the great majority of people. All of those mentioned here create a cost to the companies that tolerate them or fail to find them. Enron and Arthur Anderson have been devastated by major improprieties. ...

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