(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-03-03) Pope, Kenneth S.
Research shows that many organizations overlook needs and
opportunities to strengthen ethics. Barriers can make it hard to
see the need for stronger ethics and even harder to take effective
action. These barriers include the organization’s misleading use
of language, misuse of an ethics code, culture of silence, strategies
of justification, institutional betrayal, and ethical fallacies. Ethics
placebos tend to take the place of steps to see, solve, and prevent
problems. This article reviews relevant research and specific steps
that create change.
