Creating and Maintaining Ethical Work Climates
本文探讨管理层过度强调目标达成而忽视程序合规如何导致不道德行为，基于默顿的社会结构与失范理论，提出减少失范、营造道德工作氛围的策略。
This paper examines how unethical behavior in the workplace occurs when management places inordinately strong emphasis on goal attainment without a corresponding emphasis on following legitimate procedures. Robert Merton’s theory of social structure and anomie provides a foundation to discuss this argument. Key factors affecting ethical climates in work organizations are also addressed. Based on this analysis, the paper proposes strategies for developing and changing aspects of organizational culture to reduce anomie, thereby creating work climates which discourage unethical practices and provide employees with mechanisms to resolve ethical conflicts in a constructive way.