In the excerpt Cheating in a Bottom-line Economy from his book The Cheating Culture, David Callahan takes a close look at the changing moral values of workers when they are forced to worry about profit over anything else. When upper management puts the pressure of making money on the workers instead of handling it themselves unintended consequences can happen. For many people, work has taken up most of their lives. Most interact with coworkers more than they see their family. They spend more time at work, especially if sleep is factored out, than they spend in their own homes. They are living in a world where huge companies are failing. Downsizing, store closings, restructuring, scandals, all of these are on the front page almost every
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When he changes to the corruption of lawyers and how corporations have shifted from a sharing culture to a cutthroat culture there are plenty of sources. He didn’t include any specifics of the Sears investigation, including the fact that California filed charges against Sears after an 18 month investigation. They found that mechanics had to meet certain quotas for an eight hour shift which usually resulted in overcharging $233 per car. While Sears never admitted guilt, they did stop paying their mechanics commission. Sears Chairman Edward A. Brennan also complained, "We have to have some way of measuring performance."1 As if they had no way to measure it before they implemented commission pay to their mechanics. The excerpt Cheating in a Bottom-line Economy shows how workers are being forced to go against their morals to get ahead in today’s corporate culture. In this the author does a great job in showing it. What is missing is the corporation’s side of things. It talks about what their motives may be and who could be causing their actions, but there isn’t anything from them to actually explain their actions. This helps show the worker as being taken advantage of but also leads to a piece that seems a little out of
When he changes to the corruption of lawyers and how corporations have shifted from a sharing culture to a cutthroat culture there are plenty of sources. He didn’t include any specifics of the Sears investigation, including the fact that California filed charges against Sears after an 18 month investigation. They found that mechanics had to meet certain quotas for an eight hour shift which usually resulted in overcharging $233 per car. While Sears never admitted guilt, they did stop paying their mechanics commission. Sears Chairman Edward A. Brennan also complained, "We have to have some way of measuring performance."1 As if they had no way to measure it before they implemented commission pay to their mechanics. The excerpt Cheating in a Bottom-line Economy shows how workers are being forced to go against their morals to get ahead in today’s corporate culture. In this the author does a great job in showing it. What is missing is the corporation’s side of things. It talks about what their motives may be and who could be causing their actions, but there isn’t anything from them to actually explain their actions. This helps show the worker as being taken advantage of but also leads to a piece that seems a little out of