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Why ''Good'' Managers Make Bad Ethical Choices

Why ''Good'' Managers Make Bad Ethical Choices

Four rationalization mechanisms that can prompt good-faith managers to adopt practices that are questionable in terms of ethics.

Author(s): Saul W. Gellerman

Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Date of publication: 1986

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Synopsis

This article is one of the sources used in Manageris’ synopses:

Matters of conscience at the heart of management

Matters of conscience at the heart of management

How to choose between different options when none of them clearly emerges as being the best?  These dilemmas make us face ourselves: What is most important for us? What do we favor? What image of ourselves do we give others?
256a – Synopsis (8p.) Ethics