In chapter 6, your textbook identifies three of Kelman’s suggestions as to why people might follow what organizations want – even when such actions are morally and ethically reprehensible. Which one of the following is NOT one of those?

Question

a. The highest authority in the organization sanctions the organizational action in question
b. The actions that enact organizational behavior are routinized so that organizational members rarely identify with the complete task but only small segments of it
c. The organization chooses clearly morally and ethically suspect individuals and then uses them to achieve its ‘unstated’ objectives
d. The victims of the organization’s actions are dehumanized through ideological definitions and indoctrinations adopted by those in the organization

Answer 1

c. The organization chooses clearly morally and ethically suspect individuals and then uses them to achieve its ‘unstated’ objectives