ABSTRACT

An expression that is frequently used by employees but is not, however, appropriate in times of crisis: to bury one’s head in the sand. It indicates the inability by those with power to move their attention away from the flow of everyday activity. Above all, this expression accompanies overt frustration linked to the fact of being unable to ‘take a step back’ (another banal expression). Above all, it has undesirable consequences1 from the ethical point of view. To accept the moral suffering that this state creates, the individual reduces the field of his moral conscience by, for example, hiding behind rules and procedures, generally giving priority to legal rather than moral considerations.