Yesterday the car manufacturer Renault filed a criminal complaint on an industrial espionage case in which it asserts that a foreign company sought to obtain secrets related to its electric car program.
The case involved 3 executives which have since been suspended. In an age where technology is advancing at a pace never seen in our lifetime, organizations will continue to jostle for dominance. In jostling for dominance like the 3 executives that have been suspended on suspicion to sell corporate intellectual property to a rival car manufacturer, there similar executives who will lay aside corporate ethics to pay for stolen confidential information.
You would think that becoming an executive means that you have earned the trust of your employer, considered to be a person of integrity and on the path to an accomplished career. Therefore considering the risk of being found out and ending a career due to industrial espionage, such an offer is completely out of the question. If you are that promising executive will you will blow the whistle on such an offer? What happens if your are offered say $750K or anything north of $1m for such information, will you say “NO”?
