

'Question 1: You open an e-mail to find a huge file of your company's HR data that was sent to you in error. You can see how much everyone makes, their performance reports … everything that is pertinent to their employment. So, do you a) take a quick skim through before notifying the sender; or b) close it immediately and notify the sender? Is it wrong to look even if you keep the information to yourself?'



They only get stickier from there.



So what's the big deal about ethics anyway? Part of the reason why it resurfaces again and again in business is that in order to succeed, it can be tempting to do things that are less than honorable, especially if others don't know about it. Unfortunately, pushing ethics to the side has caused some serious problems for businesses like Enron.