An ongoing culture of corruption is significantly destructive and economically damaging to corrupt organisations. Corruption occurs on a managerial level and employee level.
Unfortunately, organisational culture can negatively influence an organisation into corruption. The concept of the social cocoon has been described to be the network of assumptions, norms and values that promote subtle corruption and it is “a special language to make corruption appear harmless,” (Anand et al, 2005). This social cocoon has established employee comfortability with participating in corruption and normalising it. Corruption is an area that requires close investigation as it tarnishes the ethicality and morality that organisations must follow, it offers unhealthy advantage and allows exploitation of organisation.
The inability to closely assess and critique corrupt organisations is caused by the voluntary lack of cooperation from organisations who fear of their reputation being tarnished or their criminal behaviour being exposed. An interview investigation was conducted, which collected interviews from 14 independent contractors from Germany, Austria and the USA revealed the common shared characteristics of corrupt organisations.
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