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August 19, 2008Good Leadership and Organizational Structure Can Cut Corruption, According to Stanford Business School Faculty |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: It's easier than most people realize for ordinary, well-meaning people to get caught up in activities they should have known were wrong. Yet, creating a structure that reduces the chances of cheating is not easy, requiring a balancing act between too few controls and too many, and between understanding why people cheat and intolerance for such behavior. According to a feature story in the current issue of Stanford Business Magazine (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0808/feature-preventcheating.html) and reported in today's Stanford Knowledgebase (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/knowledgebase.html), many people, including students at business schools, resist discussing how the influence of a group or a situation can lead good people to do bad things. "We underestimate the power of a situation to control people's actions," says Deborah Gruenfeld, who is Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford Business School Accounting Professor Maureen McNichols teaches an elective course called Understanding Cheating. Among other things, the course helps students see how good leadership and the right organizational structure can cut down on the opportunities for corruption. Stanford Knowledgebase is the free monthly information source forthoughts, ideas and research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. For related research citations and to dig deeper, visit http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/knowledgebase.html. AScribe Newswire distributes news from nonprofit and public sector organizations.
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