"You may find a figure from a recent national poll as startling as I did. In a joint study with Deloitte titled, “2008 JA Worldwide® / Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey,” which was released on Dec. 15, 2008, Junior Achievement stated in its press release: “A new poll of 750 teens from Junior Achievement and Deloitte and conducted by Opinion Research shows that more than one-in-four teens (27 percent) think behaving violently is sometimes, often or always acceptable.”
In a few years, these teens will be in the workplace. This information is disturbing on many levels. When these teens reach adulthood in a few years, the implications for the workplace are sobering. As quoted in the Junior Achievement press release mentioned above, David W. Miller, Ph.D., Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, and professor of business ethics at Princeton University said: "Employers will have their hands full if a quarter of teens grow up still willing to resort to violence and other unethical behavior when it comes to making decisions about how to settle differences, protect their interests or get ahead."..."
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