* Ethicasss * Threaten employee by lossing their job.
Since employees were nervous about losing their jobs, they only focused on how to make their performances look good. They ignored the ethical standards, and only focused on the achievement of their financial goal. After a few employees began cheating on their works, the only way to beat these persons was to cheat more. Gradually, no persons felt shame about cheating because they had no other choices and all their co-workers surrounding them were cheating. This caused a culture of deception. Employees were measured on their abilities to cheat. In such an environment, the people who never cheated were regarded as odd. For example, Margaret Ceconi, an employee with Enron Energy Service, once wrote a memo about the truth of accounting issues of Enron; she was later counseled on employee morale * Because of competition in workplace between employees.
Competition environment can cause mistakes and cheating because employees don't tend to cooperative and less communicated with each other. They become selfish. Even they don't ask questions for each other because asking the question was regarded as a weak. Then, they will not share resources or information with each other because of competition. So in Enron, no persons asking questions and no one want to answer questions. Because of this working environment, few employees at Enron actually understood their jobs. As a result, they just tried to hide errors and made their work look good. In addition, they ignored the errors and cheatings of others. They never mentioned their doubts about others’ works. Because they thought if others were not actually wrong, the person who mentioned questions would be laugh at. So employees at Enron were quie * Enron emphasized too much on the financial goals.
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