The corrupt organization
探讨腐败的心理意义,关注个体为何未能牢固遵守组织规范,以及贪婪、傲慢、个人特权感等特征在其中的作用,认为腐败行为常表达对原始道德思维的强烈依附。
This article explores the psychic meaning of corruption understood as an attack on norms of conduct in organizations. The primary focus is on why individuals fail to become securely attached to norms, and on the part played in this failure by certain key features of corruption: greed, arrogance, a sense of personal entitlement, the idea of virtue as personal loyalty, and the inability to distinguish between organizational and personal ends. The essay considers the moral dimension of the problem and suggests that conduct normally interpreted as corrupt often expresses a powerful attachment to primitive moral thinking rather than a rejection of morality.