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Ethical Problems in Organizations

Tony Mayo

The “prison experiments” by psychologist Philip Zimbardo show “that ethical problems in organizations originate not with “a few bad apples” but with the ‘barrel makers’—the leaders who, wittingly or not, create and maintain the systems in which participants are encouraged to do wrong.”

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Zimbardo and colleagues are interested especially in temporal biases in which these learned cognitive categories are not “balanced&# according to situations, contexts and demands, but one or another are utilized excessively or underutilized. Take a look at [link] – I’d appreciate your feedback. The report looks very helpful.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo , the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. Edwards Deming wrote: "A bad system will defeat a good person, every time." I asked Zimbardo, "Can you reverse the Stanford Prison Experiment?".