The article presents a commentary on the paper “Business as Usual: The acceptance and perpetuation of corruption in organizations,” by Vikas Anand, Blake E. Ashforth, and Mahendra Joshi. The author notes that ethics training has often failed to achieve its desired outcome because it has addressed external behaviors rather than the root cause of an inappropriate business practice or workplace
... [Show full abstract] behavior. The author contends that what's missing is the corporate establishment of a baseline or shared ideology for acceptable conduct.