Online MBA Residential: Causes of Organizational Wrongdoing

UC Davis Graduate School of Management welcomes our MBA@UCDavis Online MBA program students to an in-person residential in Davis, CA.

Instructor: Gina Dokko
Topic: Causes of Organizational Wrongdoing

The Causes of Organizational Wrongdoing examines why people perpetrate and participate in unethical, socially irresponsible and illegal behavior in organizations. Wrongdoing is pervasive in organizations, so it is important to ask why so many managers behave badly in organizations, even though the vast majority of managers are good people. The objective of this course is to develop knowledge about the many factors that lead to wrongful behavior, and skills to recognize and circumvent wrongful behavior in yourself and your co-workers. To do so, we study organizations from two perspectives: one where wrongdoing is aberrant, perpetrated by bad people, and one where wrongdoing is “normal” or just a small step from behavior that is not wrong, perpetrated by ordinary people like you and me.