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During the past decade, corruption has ranked highly on the agenda of multinational development agencies, private firms, and policy-makers; it has become one of the most prominent managerial issues at the individual (Trevino 1986; Aquino, Reed 2002; Marcus, Schuler 2004; Eisenberg 2000; Reynolds 2006; Banaji et al. 2003), organizational (Ashforth et al. 2008, Baucus, Near 1991; Brief et al. 2001; Pinto et al. 2008), national and international (Callahan 2004; Punch 2003) level.

The recent increase in interest in corruption is related to a couple of factors, the essential being that corruption has become more prevalent in the global economy (Coupet 2003; Seleim, Bontis 2009). The recent corruption scandals made us realize that many corporations operating in the international marketplace have no clear notion of their responsibilities to individuals and whole nations. The unethical corruptive behavior of corporations operating multinationals can have a devastating impact on individuals and communities. It has become one of the most important managerial issues at the individual, organizational, and national levels. Corruption practices in international business are widespread and growing (Seleim, Bontis 2009), and research investigated corruption and its impact on a country's political, economic, and cultural infrastructure has focused a great deal of attention. Corruption weakens markets, reduces competitiveness, diverts investments, and increases economic uncertainty (Shkolnikov, Wilson 2005).

Required:

A) You are a new employee in a global corporation, and your manager asks you to fulfill your job in a way that violates your ethical standards. You are asked to give bribery to one of your very important customers. This situation makes you very dissatisfied with your new work. Please describe what actions you can undertake?

B) Please describe with examples how the corrupted organizational culture can be transmitted to employees?