Corporate Scandals
Employees created millions of unauthorized accounts due to intense sales pressure.
What is the Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal?
This theory claims morality is determined by cultural norms and context.
What is Moral Relativism?
A workplace atmosphere where employees fear retaliation for speaking up.
What is a Culture of Fear?
Taking company resources for personal use is an example of this type of lapse.
What is an Individual Ethical Lapse?
Name 3 songs Bad Bunny performed at the Superbowl
Executives ignored safety violations and treated fines as a cost of doing business.
What happened at Upper Big Branch Mine?
Acting purely in one’s own self-interest regardless of others’ welfare.
What is Ethical Egoism?
Hero worship of leaders contributed to silence in this university scandal.
What is the Penn State Sandusky Case?
Fraud arising from pressure, opportunity, and rationalization.
What is the Fraud Triangle (conceptually)?
Name the two people shot by ICE agents in Minnesota
Renee Nicole Good (Jan. 7, 2026)
Alex Pretti (Jan. 24, 2026)
Failure to report abuse to protect institutional reputation represents a breach of this duty.
What is Duty to Stakeholders / Duty of Care?
Kant’s idea that people must never be treated merely as means to an end.
What is Respect for Persons / Human Dignity?
When unethical behavior becomes normalized through repeated exposure.
What is Ethical Desensitization?
Industry-wide questionable practices that undermine individual ethics programs.
What are Industry Norm Ethical Lapses?
Who let the dogs out?
The first baseman
A CEO’s “tone at the top” heavily influences ethical behavior throughout an organization.
What is Ethical Leadership / Tone at the Top?
A moral framework based on developing traits like honesty and integrity over time.
What is Virtue Ethics?
Employees who follow unethical orders without question illustrate this phenomenon.
What is the Banality of Evil / Ethical Detachment?
Bonuses tied to performance metrics can incentivize...
unethical behavior if misaligned.
An ancient (some argue other world) invention that is still used in some parts of the world that allows people to see through walls.
What is a window.
Treating regulatory fines as routine expenses indicates this ethical failure.
What is Compliance as Cost of Doing Business?
Natural Law holds that moral principles derive from this inherent human quality.
What is Human Nature / Rational Moral Order?
Remaining silent about wrongdoing due to fear of consequences demonstrates this effect.
What is Whistleblower Suppression / Organizational Silence?
Systems designed to prevent fraud, misconduct, and abuse within organizations.
What are Internal Controls & Compliance Programs?
Had the entire long wall of the UBB been full of methane gas what would happen when Billy Bob lit the match to light his cigarette
Nothing you need oxygen to spark a match