Answer? 1) Yes, it is a bit ironic. If a company has an Ethics program that's comprehensive enough, executives should not have to be caught in business criminal activities.
2.) First let's talk about Ethics programs. These are basically programs that embody the business philosophies of a company such that every stakeholder understand how business is run in the company. It basically defines to employees, staff, investors, vendors and customers the rules of Business Ethics as defined by the firm, from the maximum amount of tips to collect from customers to how intimate employees get with clients so that there's no confusion. Now, all this is to clarify but the question here is how effective was the program if criminal activity was discovered? It's simple. The most comprehensive Ethics programs can't control human circumstantial behaviour. As clear as rules may be, they are always still broken. And this is because, with humans, there an infinite number of things to put into consideration, most of which won't always follow rules. One may be 100% compliant with said rules but find themselves weak to give in at some point for any possible reason the person deemed more important than upholding the companies ethics. In other words, these rules are held by the people it binds and the delivery will always be subjective. Whenever it is deemed unfavorable to uphold, it most likely will be dropped.
Therefore, it might have been the most effective and comprehensive Ethics program in the world but only as effective as the executives demmed it subjectively.
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Answer: fundamental attribution error
Explanation: Fundamental attribution error is the tendency of others to explain another persons behaviour based on personality or disposition and give little or no concern for other external factors such as situation surrounding the persons behaviour at that particular point in time.
According to the question, Dr. Mitchell's behaviour during lectures is far different to her behaviour when she is alone or with others. Due to her behaviour during lectures her students labelled her an extrovert when in actual sense she is an introvert. Her out going behaviour during lectures can be associated with her surrounding which is the lecture room and students while her personality is she like being alone reading.
