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Improving Corporate Governance : Character Education As A Supplement To Corporate Ethics Training, Richard L. Muney
Improving Corporate Governance : Character Education As A Supplement To Corporate Ethics Training, Richard L. Muney
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This thesis explores the hypothesis that ethics training for corporate personnel will significantly increase ethical behavior and thereby significantly reduce the incidence of corporate malfeasance.
For over 100 years the federal government has been trying to curb malfeasance by managers of public corporations and their boards of directors. This thesis examines the history of that legislation and those regulatory efforts, concluding that these legislative and regulatory attempts have met with varying degrees of success, but, on balance, that success has been transitory at best. It also comes to the conclusion that corporate training programs in ethics, in the absence of …