Today, there was an Ethics Lunch. In the session, the guy who was once a CEO of a small company came to give a lecture for the students. He manupulated the financial statements, which was found by regulations later. He was arrested and is scheduled for sentencing in Federal court in September.
The guy said that possiblilities to be guilty are everywhere in the workplace. We have to have a vigilant against it. The situation surrounding us is not the reason to do illegal things. For example, a very influencial CEO tells me to do manupulate the financial statements and most of my colleague allow to do so, that is no an excuse of the manupulation. We always need to keep our better self separated from working environment. And it is not an option but a duty to report illegal things. Blink them is also guilty.
This lecture moved me very much. First, such kind of lectures are rarely held in Japan. Second, it is true that many and tiny illigal things are happening in many workplace like manupulating financial statements, copying softwares without enough licenses and so on. Those thing are passing by and forgotten easily if they are not found by authority. But, if they are found once, every piece of tiny thing are checked. In the guy's case, all of the e-mails and memos were checked. And his family life was broken.
The last comment he said in the lecture sticks in my head. "If you become a CEO, remember my lecture ten years later and stop doing illegal things in the hectic working conditions, I am happy."
The guy said that possiblilities to be guilty are everywhere in the workplace. We have to have a vigilant against it. The situation surrounding us is not the reason to do illegal things. For example, a very influencial CEO tells me to do manupulate the financial statements and most of my colleague allow to do so, that is no an excuse of the manupulation. We always need to keep our better self separated from working environment. And it is not an option but a duty to report illegal things. Blink them is also guilty.
This lecture moved me very much. First, such kind of lectures are rarely held in Japan. Second, it is true that many and tiny illigal things are happening in many workplace like manupulating financial statements, copying softwares without enough licenses and so on. Those thing are passing by and forgotten easily if they are not found by authority. But, if they are found once, every piece of tiny thing are checked. In the guy's case, all of the e-mails and memos were checked. And his family life was broken.
The last comment he said in the lecture sticks in my head. "If you become a CEO, remember my lecture ten years later and stop doing illegal things in the hectic working conditions, I am happy."