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ArticleJournal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD)2015

Steps to strengthen ethics in organizations: research findings, ethics placebos, and what works.

Kenneth S Pope

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Article in Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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Kenneth S Popea Licensed Psychologist in Independent Practice, Norwalk , Connecticut , USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research shows that many organizations overlook needs and opportunities to strengthen ethics. Barriers can make it hard to see the need for stronger ethics and even harder to take effective action. These barriers include the organization's misleading use of language, misuse of an ethics code, culture of silence, strategies of justification, institutional betrayal, and ethical fallacies. Ethics placebos tend to take the place of steps to see, solve, and prevent problems. This article reviews relevant research and specific steps that create change.

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Codes of EthicsHumansMoralsOrganizational CultureOrganizational InnovationOrganizationsWhistleblowingethicsethics codesethics enforcementinstitutional betrayalmoral courageorganizationswhistleblower

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PMID25602131
PMCPMC4376242

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