Volume 11, 2000
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting
Melissa S. Baucus, Caryn L. Beck-Dudley
Pages 29-39
Designing Ethical Organizations
Ethics researchers advise organizations to rely on rewards and punishments and other mechanisms to elicit ethical behavior. We discuss how this encourages employees to operate at Kohlberg's lowest levels of moral reasoning. We use AES Corporation as an example to illustrate our alternative recommendations for designing ethical organizations.