Open AccessCorporate Ethical Training: An Answer to White-Collar Crimes
Author(s) -
Richard Pitre,
Claudius Claiborne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of values based leadership/the journal of values-based leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-019X
pISSN - 1948-0733
DOI - 10.22543/0733.142.1362
Subject(s) - corporation , agency (philosophy) , moral agency , perspective (graphical) , sociology , social contract , natural (archaeology) , white (mutation) , set (abstract data type) , punishment (psychology) , public relations , law and economics , social psychology , business , politics , psychology , law , political science , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , gene , history , programming language
The modern business corporation is a culturally significant component of American Society. It is facing a cultural invasion of the highest order. The categorical imperative, an unconditional principle that rational individuals must follow despite natural desires or inclinations to do otherwise, is today being called into question. This is most likely the result of grounding moral values upon information that is transient and unstable rather than upon established data. The social contract, which governs the formation and maintenance of individual morals, is a requirement in organizations that demands collective agency – employees acting together to set forth moral rules of behavior and eschew pernicious leanings and tendencies. From that perspective, ethical training becomes a key leveraging point in the disconnect between cultural expectations and individual behaviors in corporate America.