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A 10 page paper on the breakdown of ethical standards in the workplace today. It gives statistics on the prevalence of unethical or illegal practices at work, analyzes why these seem to be more prevalent today, and offers solutions. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Oracle, are locked in a similar battle (Maynard & Jones, 1997). And early in 1996, Thomas Suozzi, Mayor of Glen Cove, NY, accepted a luxury vehicle donated by a local
dealership whose landlord has property tax grievances pending before the city. When the deal was made public, the vehicle was returned (Lam, 1996). Have we entered a new era of
public amorality, or are there other factors at work? What can be done to bring integrity back to American corporate life? Why The Breakdown in Workplace Ethics? According
to Patricia Kitchen, writing in Newsday, "Almost half of the workers in a new survey admitted they had engaged in unethical or illegal acts in the last year" (Kitchen, 1997).
Common violations reported include cutting corners on quality control, inappropriate use of phone or computer time, covering up incidents, abusing or lying about sick days or time spent on a
particular job, lying to or misleading customers, and putting inappropriate pressures on others, both within the company and without. More serious violations include theft of trade secrets or physical company
property. And, to quote journalist Barbara Ettorre, on the high end "we have money laundering, banking debacles, Treasury bond scandals, insider trading, ingenious computerized schemes and misuse of funds for
personal gain" (Ettorre, 1996). The most common reason given for all these ethical violations is job pressures. "Balancing work and family, carrying heavy workloads over long hours, and coping with
poor corporate leadership and communication were all listed as leading causes of stress by the 1,324 respondents in the mailed questionnaire. Forty-eight percent of workers from a variety of fields
and all levels, from executives to rank-and-file, admitted to engaging in one or more unethical or illegal act in the past year" (Kitchen, 1997). She cites a survey conducted for
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