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1. There are no other sources allow. It need to be from the reading below.
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There are no other sources allow. It need to be from the reading below. Pick one of the
following question to answer. and tell be which question you are answering at the
beginning of the post. your writing should be 150-250 words. That is all for the
requirement.1. What are the negative effects of a culture that encourages dishonesty and
corruption on an organization’s reputation and its employees?2. Identify three ways in
which leaders can influence the culture to encourage honesty and integrity in employees’
work performance?3. What strategies can new employees take to counteract the effects of a
negative or dishonest culture and what challenges might they face?Cultures of Deceit &
FraudWhether people do or do not comply with rules, expectations, or requirements of
their workplace has been found less to do with their moral character and more to do with
interpersonal factors in their work environments. Whether you are an honest, kind, or
generous person may not shine through when you are making decisions about right and
wrong in the context of your work. Research shows both culture and leadership are more
prominent influences in social situations of moral decision-making than a person’s
individual character.Some studies even indicate that whole professions or industries may
implicitly encourage dishonesty. One experiment shows, how subjects behaved honestly or
dishonestly when thinking about their professional identities. In the study, people were
either tasked to simply complete a nondescript survey or to think about their professional
role (priming them to operate in a manner like they were at work). They were then tasked
to provide results for a series of coin flips. The participants were told in advance the more
times the coin showed heads, the more money they would make. People in the banking
industry who took the nondescript survey were comparably as honest in reporting coin
flips as people who worked in other industries. The bankers who were told to think about
their professional identities, however, inflated the reporting on how often the coin turned
up heads. This was in contrast to other people in the study from different professions who
did not display the dishonest reporting behavior like the bankers did. However, that does
not mean the results are limited to only the banking industry. Other studies have shown
that when people are prompted to think about money, they also engage in similar behavior.
This is especially true when they assume a professional identity and the behavior relates to
the bottom line performance of an organization. Financial performance seems strongly tied
to an incentive to be dishonest.Each organization has a way of understanding what is and is

2. not acceptable in the context of their culture. Can we fudge the numbers a little? It is okay
to take an extra half our at lunch? Do we stand around the water cooler and dump on the
weird guy in accounts receivable? Can we take sick days if we’re not sick? How people
answers these questions indicates the ethical climate of the organization? The ethical
climate refers to the values in place in the organizational culture that guide people’s
understanding of what is and is not acceptable behavior. In cases like the banking industry,
Wells Fargo specifically, an emphasis on prioritizing profit over customer’s interest lead to a
huge scandal in 2016. The company had been creating millions of fraudulent savings and
checking accounts on behalf their clients without their client’s consent. This deceitful
practice cost their clients unexpected fees and charges as well as adversely affecting many
of their clients credit ratings. Employees of the bank blamed the organization and its
leadership for creating unrealistic goals in terms of “cross-selling” — the sale of new
products (e.g. credit cards, checking accounts) to existing customers of the bank. The
pressures institutionalized by reward and punishment systems drove employees to behave
outside of their typical value set and prioritize workplace expectations over moral
character. It was a clear example of toxic culture leading to disastrous results for the
company and its customers.