Unipeg Corporation has uniform high sales targets for its employees all across the globe, regardless of the environmental constraints in each market. Employees are penalized for any shortfall. This has caused many employees to falsify the values of their sales. In this context, the roots of unethical behavior can be traced to:

OPTIONS:

A. unrealistic performance expectations.  

B. cultural differences of countries.

C. strong personal ethics among employees.

D. varying ethical standards in different nations.

E. national differences in factors of production.

A. unrealistic performance goals

Explanation:

From the information given about Unipeg Corporation, we can tell that the roots of unethical behavior that employees engage in, can be traced to the unrealistic performance expectations of Unipeg Corporation.

The company failed to take consideration of the different environmental constraints that are peculiar to each market across the globe, when setting sales targets that all its employees in different parts of the globe should meet. Obviously, using a uniform high sales target across board for all employees is really unrealistic. Sales targets should be set for employees according to where they are across the globe, considering the environmental constraints that is peculiar to each market.

In order to avoid being penalized for not meeting their sales targets, employees falsify the values of their sales.

The setting of unrealistic performance goals is the root of this unethical behavior portrayed by the employees.

d. all of the above are true.