One penny, twenty dollars
In Business Communication class, we completed a discussion of ethics and acted out a simple scenario. I challenged the students to decide if I would be more upset if someone stole a penny or $20 bill from my desk. The answer was almost universal -- the $20 bill because it had more value.
No. I would be upset with both situations equally. They both involve stealing.
Recently I attended a symposium at Rider University on white collar crime, highlighting some of the recent criminal acts of businesspersons whose activities have been discovered in the recent economic crisis. First $10,000, then $100,000, then $1,000,000.00. Maybe it all started with a penny.
