The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: Understanding What Causes Moral Meltdowns in Organizations

Author: Jennings, Marianne M.
Source: St. Martin's Griffin
Year: 2006
Number of pages: 336

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Abstract:

Marianne Jennings has spent a lifetime studying business ethics--and ethical failures. Here she takes her decades of findings and shows us in The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse the reasons that companies and nonprofits undergo ethical collapse, including:
· Pressure to maintain numbers
· Fear and silence
· Young 'uns and a larger-than-life CEO
· A weak board
· Conflicts
· Innovation like no other
· Belief that goodness in some areas atones for wrongdoing in others.