Corporate corruption of employees is often deliberately engineered by management

Evidence

Of course, it was intended to. That is, his book makes clear the willing participation of the firm’s managers in the corruption, and their calculated efforts to corrupt lower-level staff. As an example, higher commissions were paid for moving poor-quality bonds off on unwary customers. One is reminded of the people who worked for the now-defunct Lincoln Savings and Loan Company, which sold a good many nongovernment-insured investments to elderly customers, allowing them to believe they were insured. Many lost their life savings. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4024

Categorization

• XREF: The commission-structure point parallels the pay-for-performance incentive literature in behavioral economics and the structural incentives theme from earlier chapters. — connects to: Corporations weaponize game mechanics purely to engineer customer and employee behavior — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 984; Corporate climate deniers are corrupt, not confused about reality