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Furthe to Matt,
I like this distinction. At the cost of generalising from fiction, in "A Civil Campaign", Lois McMaster Bujold phrased it as: "Reputation is what other people know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself." Quoted here:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhatYouAreInTheDark/Literature
Further to Kaj and Eric,
a fear of the career consequences of being in the line of fire
this sounds like people who are in the middle of an Immoral Maze. That's probably statistically true, because any corporation large enough to be worth attacking is probably large enough to have three layers of middle-management.
Assuming that, doing 'honour' requires having goals other than power-seeking which, according to that sequence, makes one untrustworthy for the modal middle-manager, who has sacrificed everything else to it, and professionally doomed.