Only then does a business have the luxury of doing the right thing. This type of comment makes it seem as if business ethics are nothing but a nice public relations gloss or perhaps a kind of makeup seen on the corpses of unsuccessful businesses. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Good ethics are an essential part of successful businesses.
Such misrepresentations are disturbingly common. During the Clinton scandal, we repeatedly heard that businesses would never tolerate perjury or lying by a senior executives. Both sexes are guilty of this behavior, although a recent Toronto study revealed that men lie about twice as often as women. The applicants assume that human-resource people will have neither the time nor the incentive to do a thorough background check. As fierce competition drives up salaries, all sorts of people come out of the woodwork.