HSBC fined $1.2billion for money laundering drug money in Mexico.
Healthcare Commission reported in 2009 that up to 1,200 "excess" deaths had been uncovered at Stafford Hospital.
Such frauds and abuses involve large groups of people working together within hierarchical structures.
Evidence suggests that such situations are poss. where lower status staff have external LoC, increasing the poss. of them complying with illegal orders given by authority figures within the hierarchy.
Chui (2004) suggests that whistleblowing is performed by individuals with a high LoC.
To prvent such incidences requires staff training that focuses on recognition and resistance of such practices. Junior staff need to be taught to obey official procedures rather than the illegal demands of more senior authority figures.
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