Ethics in Organizations -- Implications for Anti-Plagiarism Education

Astrid Kersten's article, "Organizing for Powerlessness", in Journal of Organizational Change Management refers to the organizational barriers to ethics. "authentic ethical conduct in organizations requires the creation of a 'holding environment'; a space that is safe enough to share negative feelings, contain aggression and fantasies, and allow workers to explore and process errors and problems. Many organizations, however, contain a prosecutory organizational identity that rigidly and narcissistically separates good from bad, thereby promoting blaming, scapegoating, a false sense of security and dimished anxiety.[...]Authentic ethical conduct, the authors conclude, only emerges out of authentic human relationships." This comes from Diamond, M. and Adams, G. (1999). "The psychodynamics of ethical behavior in organizations", American Behavioral Scientist, 43(2), 245-264.

There's definitely something here to contribute to my understanding of plagiarism by students and the approaches that professors take to the issue of student plagiarism.