Business Ethics: "From Yale to Jail"
Abstract
Boeing, Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, Fresenius, Oxfam: the recent wave of scandals shows that corporations and also nonprofit organizations systematically underestimate the human risk. In all those cases, organizations had to pay a huge price and in all those cases, problems do not relate to the decisions of a few criminals but result from systematic cultural problems and leadership failure. One of the key insights of those scandals is a recurring pattern of normal people behaving illegally in high pressure contexts. You can see it coming! Contexts can be stronger than reason and good people can do bad things without even realizing that what they do is illegal or immoral. I call this ethical blindness – the inability of decision makers to see that what they do is wrong.
Aims
Based on the state of the art in research on the psychology of unethical decision making and interpreting these recent scandals, the aim of this Masterclass is to show how leaders push their organizations to “the dark side of the force” and how they can reduce such costly risks.
For whom
For leaders in organizations who want to understand how to create a culture of integrity for their teams.
You will learn to…
- Define the dynamics that push people to act unlawfully within organizations
- Reflect on risk and cost of unethical behavior
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