People are often surprised to learn that most of us overestimate our ethics at some point. Considerable research shows that we do not know the gap between how ethical we think and how ethical we really are. The authors describe the related notions of limited awareness and limited ethics and discuss the implications of these for organizations. They then provide three tools to improve our individual ethics and outline some aspects of organizational life that need to be examined more closely to reduce unethical behavior at the group level, including solutions hidden but powerful informal values and ethical failures. "Hide
by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel Source: Rotman School of Management / UOT 4 pages. Publication Date: 01 May 2011. Prod. #: ROT140-PDF-ENG
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