Summarize Donald palmers research regarding who is prone to

Summarize Donald palmer\'s research regarding who is prone to be unethical in a business? what are the implications for companies

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The research compares with parallel theories on organizational wrongdoing and informs they do not provide a good answer to this question. As per them these are abnormal phenomenon. And so these tend to differentiate wrongdoers as extraordinary and as possessing bigger ambitions or bad values and views wrongful behavior as aberrant and so should not be so prevalent. Then he provides his alternative approach, that the unethical practices are s common as the ethical practices and the unethical practitioners are normal, the reason why these are prevalent are because of the power structures, administrative systems, social influence processes, and technologies .All these can cause increase in unethical practices in businesses.

So, companies should try to formalize the processes and have reward system well structured and all the abberrant or unethical practitioners are dealt in a certain way to set precendence leading to reduction in such practices.