How does a manager “learn” to manage workplace ethical behavior? Is it from examples that managers become better at managing ethics in the workplace? I think that would be a hard lesson learned. If you have read the headlines lately, you will find that there are strong arguments for more ethical corporate leadership and to incorporate ethics into the work environment. But, what is missing is the "how to" in putting ethical goals into practical action. Why is it that so many leaders and managers believe business ethics is religion because it seems to contain a great deal of preaching? Or, they believe it to be superfluous because it seems to merely assert the obvious: do good! When someone brings up the topic of business ethics, it tends to bring up cynicism, righteousness, paranoia, and laughter. Many managers believe business ethics is irrelevant because too much time is devoted to ethics. That it can be non-productive. That training is not like the “real-to-life” complexities of unethical behavior in organizations.