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Why good people sometimes do bad things

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Firstly these questions are intriguing. How do trusted people and organizations become cheats? Not just once, but repeatedly and systematically. What motivates and possesses them? What explains these twists and turns? How come factory workers went so far as to regularly bind a colleague naked to a push cart and push it through the production room as a joke to lighten the mood? How did a manager, having skirted around environmental regulations year after year to the benefit of his employer, eventually reach a point where he was able to boast about it? How did a director come to pay a customer under the table, by way of friendly service, and still tell the tale dry-eyed? What led teachers to the point that they announced with pride that they had boosted their students’ grades so that they could graduate quicker? And what inspired Jeffrey Skilling, president of American energy company Enron, bankrupted in 2001 because of the biggest case of accounting fraud in history at the time, to say shortly before its downfall: ‘We are doing something special. Magical. It isn’t a job – it is a mission. We are changing the world. We are doing God’s work.’ They did indeed change the world, as it is partly due to this fraud case that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced, an Act which had implications for the governance of companies worldwide.

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: ., 2002

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