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public and private morality  

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  • Contemporary scholars such as Linda Treviño and Al Gini have studied the relationship between the private moral behavior of managers and their ability to satisfy their public moral responsibilities. On the one hand, it seems natural to hold that the moral standards used to evaluate an individual's private behavior ought to be separated from the standards used to evaluate one's behavior in professional roles, representing organizations with public stakeholders. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Morality, Public and Private]

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