Organizations need workplace standards to promote safety and quality, so they establish margins of error where some deviation from the ideal is acceptable. For example, it may be fine to be off by an ounce for a cereal box, or the length of a screw could be a few nanometers too long. Or financial records for a large company could be several million dollars short.
‘Margins of error’ in workplace correlate with unethical behavior outside workplace
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