Corporate Conformity: How far would you go to protect the company?
In a recent corporate ethics simulation conducted by management consultants at VeloCorp, 85% of mid-grade managers agreed to falsify environmental safety reports when explicitly instructed to do so by an actor playing a high-ranking executive. Participants later reported feeling immense pressure because the simulation took place in an intimidating, high-stakes boardroom environment. Furthermore, actors playing supportive colleagues nodded encouragingly every time a participant complied. Despite initial personal hesitation, participants cited the 'relentless corporate urgency' and the 'unanimous team agreement' as the main reasons they went against their personal ethical standards.
Outline one way the article above supports the situational side of the individual/situational debate. Support your answer with evidence from the article.
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.