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Organizational Behavior

The attribution theory is a process by which individuals attempt to explain the why of behavior as based on people's attributions of causes to events that happen to them. Attribution theory views the process by which individuals interpret events around them being caused by (attributed to) a relatively stable portion of their environment.
In relation to the corporate scandals of several CEO' s illegal behavior the majority of the population will associate their behavior as being the norm in their business. According to the attribution process there must be an initial event that ignites the future perception of behavior. In respect to the corporate scandals the initial event would be the scandal itself followed by an analysis of why the event happened, in this case it would be greed of the CEO's and other high-ranking officials within a company. Next the process calls for reinforcement of that analysis, in this case it could be seen as more than one CEO from several companies all......


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