This writing assignment will be based on the case study "Wells Fargo: A Culture in Need of

Change" in Chapter $5$ of the textbook on pages $153$ to $155.$ The case material talks about the ethical

challenges at Wells Fargo based on certain of its business practices that were largely driven by bad

ethics, culture, and misalignment of incentives.

Topic$-$Assignment:

Read the case study and the background material discussed in the text and answer the following

questions specified below:

Pulling from chapter $3$ learning, how ethically aware were Wells Fargo executives and

how ethically aware should they have been? Explain.

In terms of ethical leadership, how would you characterize the leadership of the

Community Bank prior to the scandal? Of Wells Fargo overall? What messages were

they $($Leadership$/$ Senior management$)$ sending? How about sales managers?

Evaluate the performance management system before and after the scandal came to

light. Can you identify problems? Were they fixed?

Employees were disciplined $($over $5000$ of them$)$ for violating the formal rules and