Health Care Labor Force
One of the challenges that can arise as organizations become more complex is that oversight is more difficult. With more people and more divisions, there are more transactions, and more opportunity for unethical decision-making. In many cases, it will also be more difficult to identify unethical behaviors. Another challenge is that one of the main methods of preventing ethical violations is to have training, and an organizational culture, that rejects unethical behavior. People within the organization who receive training are in a position to understand when they may be involved in an ethical dilemma, and they will also have better tools for addressing such as dilemma. So in theory, it is entirely possible that there could be more ethical issues in larger, more complex organizations. Just on raw numbers, the more people are in an organization the more likelihood that there will be some sort of ethical violation.
But there is not likely to be any evidence of a relationship between organizational size and ethics. In smaller organizations, there are not enough people to have adequate checks and balances, and the principles hold too much formal power. In that sense, there is actually better opportunity to...
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