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Can ethics be learned, or is it a personal characteristic? If ethics cannot be learned, how can an organization avoid ethical violations, or at least minimize them?

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Ethics can be learned to a certain degree and employees can sometimes be trained to follow ethical conduct. For example, a student may think that the language quoted by an eminent professor in his textbook quoted verbatim in a college assignment is not plagiarism, ...

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