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The slippery slope of getting away with small stuff     –By Bryan Borzykowski

reference:   http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140806-the-slippery-slope

Opinions:

According to  this article, the slippery slope effect can be defined as a idea of an action that lead to unacceptable, extreme results. For example, within this article, people who are affected by slippery-slope effect all started from taking a little bit, and then gradually lost control by taking huge amount. As a result, those people crossed the line of ethic and committed unethical act at their works.

I understand the negative effect of slippery slope effect ,but how to avoid it? How to avoid people to commit to unethical actions during their works? I think the education of business ethic is crucial at this point,which means companies  need to make it clear to all of their employees that unethical behaviours are inhibited. Companies need to set up some policies to help employees keep away from unethical actions, then people will be aware of unethical acts. Someone may say that when they start to take things from the company , this action creates values for his or her own good. However, I disagree with this idea because  unethical actions in business disrupt the interest of the whole business company. The truth is that customers, employees, stockholders,suppliers etc. share the same interest together, so while the company’s interest is deprived, everyone’s interest is deprived as well.  So I think its necessary to build a brief idea of ethic in business and keep away from unethical behaviours.  Just as what Blair in this article says,

“Instead of staying two feet away from the line, I now need to stay two miles away. That’s the best protection for me, to not even get near a place where there could be danger.”