The morality of corruption in organizations

When corruption is contextualized in the daily work of organisationsthe ethical focus may be on the use of morality to transmit ideas about what is acceptable or not. The typical approach may be that of communicating values from leadership (which indeed happens more rarely). A second approach may be...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Torsello, Davide
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repository:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/37970
Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/37970
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Corruption
Morality
Organizations
Corrupción
Moralidad
Organizaciones
Corrupção
Moralidade
Organizações
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Summary:When corruption is contextualized in the daily work of organisationsthe ethical focus may be on the use of morality to transmit ideas about what is acceptable or not. The typical approach may be that of communicating values from leadership (which indeed happens more rarely). A second approach may be dealing with moral standards in the everyday patterns of socialization within and out of theorganisation. Finally, the final focus concerns the problematizing of moral claims in social contexts in which corruption is a daily issue. Here, instead of delegating culture as the explanation for the resiliency of corruption, it may be fruitful to gather more empirical evidence on how moral standards become poisoned in social contexts.