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For many people, a company called Enron Corp. still ranks as one of history’s classic examples of ethics run amok. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Enron was in the business of wholesaling natural gas and electricity. Enron made its money as the intermediary (wholesaler) between suppliers and customers. Without getting into all the details, the nature of Enron’s business—and the fact that Enron didn’t actually own the assets—meant that its profit statements and balance sheets listing the firm’s assets and liabilities were unusually difficult to understand. It turned out that the lack of accounting transparency enabled the company’s managers to make Enron’s financial performance look much better than it actually was. Outside experts began questioning Enron’s financial statements in 2001. In fairly short order, Enron collapsed, and courts convicted several of its top executives of things like manipulating Enron’s reported assets and profitability. Many investors (including former Enron employees) lost all or most of their investments in Enron. In Enron’s case this breakdown is perhaps more perplexing than usual. As one writer said, Enron had all the elements usually found in comprehensive ethics and compliance programs: a code of ethics, a reporting system, as well as a training video on vision and values led by [the company’s top executives]. 135 Experts subsequently put forth many explanations for how a company that was apparently so ethical outwardly could actually have been making so many bad ethical decisions without other managers (and the board of directors) noticing. The explanations ranged from a “deliberate concealment of information by officers,” to more psychological explanations (such as employees not wanting to contradict their bosses) and the “surprising role of irrationality in decision-making.” 136 But perhaps the most persuasive explanation of how an apparently ethical company could go so wrong concerns organizational culture. The reasoning here is that it’s not the rules but what employees feel they should do that determines ethical behavior. For example (speaking in general, not specifically about Enron), the executive director of the Ethics Officer Association put it this way: [W]e’re a legalistic society, and we’ve created a lot of laws. We assume that if you just knew what those laws meant that you would behave properly. Well, guess what? You can’t write enough laws to tell us what to do at all times every day of the week in every part of the world. We’ve got to develop the critical thinking and critical reasoning skills of our people because most of the ethical issues that we deal with are in the ethical gray areas.
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This case and chapter had something to say about how organizational culture influences ethical behavior. What role do you think culture played at Enron? Give five specific examples of things Enron’s CEO could have done to create a healthy ethical culture.
Dessler, Gary. Human Resource Management (Page 450). Pearson Education. Kindle Edition.
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