ey think it will help them get such promotions.
The most important part of ethical business decisions is the individual. At any point in the long process of many decisions made in the Goodrich case, any of the many individuals could have stopped the lies---if he had been willing to lose his job. However, none of the men were willing to take that chance and take that ethical stand. This is why it is so important that a company create an ethical workplace that helps individuals make the right decisions.
As Cordtz writes, with respect to the relationship between the individual and the company,
For the most part, the managers on the firing line are more concerned with staying out of trouble. The first objective of just about all corporate ethics programs is to make sure that all employees
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