Heffernan: Entering organizations shifts moral focus from goodness to obedience
Margaret Heffernan · #30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition · Mar 13, 2018 · at 48:59
Author Margaret Heffernan cites Stanley Milgram's obedience research to explain how workplace structures distort personal morality and accountability.
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“He talked about how when we go into an organization and Our moral focus shifts, essentially from wanting to be a good person to wanting to do a good job, and we implicitly assume that doing a good job is doing what we're told, and there's much in our organizational life that creates, if you like, a sort of special identity for us.”
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