Not surprisingly, USAA was named as one of the top five best places to work in America. Moral codes work, in part, because they give us societal approval for our actions and thoughts, and because we receive tangible rewards for following them. That has already been taken care of by the evolution of our strong human reliance on reciprocal altruism. We aggregate in tribes, clans, villages, towns, cities and now organizations because we do better together than alone. Organizations that plan on receiving a steady flow of benefits from the community in which they live and work need to understand that the flow is conditional.
Someone needs to turn the spigot first.
Nancy Lee Hutchin consults in enterprise reengineering at Intergraph. All rights reserved. One personal copy may be made of this document. Web services by Coe-Truman Technologies, Inc.