DEJ Module 1 Prt 2

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The other reading that stood out to me was the article “Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices”. I am a finance major here at State and after college, I want to go into higher finance which consists of large banks and financial firms. Although this industry is very profitable it typically is tainted with unethical behavior and decisions. Despite good intentions, organizations set themselves up for ethical catastrophes by creating environments in which people feel forced to make choices they could never have imagined. Former Federal Prosecutor Serina Vash says, “When I first began prosecuting corruption, I expected to walk into rooms and find the vilest people. I was shocked to find ordinarily good people I could well have had coffee with that morning. And they were still good people who’d made terrible choices(pg2 line 9-19).” This passage from the text perfectly describes why there is unethical behavior, especially in banks and financial institutions. These companies have their employees buy into the belief that the most important thing is profit and nothing else. By having employees believe that their only goal should be to boost profits and make as much money as possible with no regard to anything else you will find unethical behavior. This is why you see companies such as Wells Fargo open thousands of fake accounts without people knowing, and companies making their employees work 100-plus hours a week. When a company instills the wrong values in its employees consequences will shortly follow as it has for many large banks and financial firms in the past.