The paper examines factors contributing to development and revealing of conflict, provoking people to aggravation of contradictions, resulting in corrupt behavior in the private sector. The main conflict-generating factor, according to the author, is presence of contradictions in the person, who has been delegated with power, between his personal interests and interests of the organization. In most cases, the person focuses on the immediate areas, both territorial and temporal (the sphere of immediate interest), this leads to the fact that what falls within this sphere has more value than what lies beyond. This circumstance also reinforces the priority of group and individual interests, which are usually located in the sphere of a person’s immediate interest, above all others, including the persons who direct the work of the organizations in the private sector or work in any capacity in such organizations. Thus, the propensity for corruption is not an exception, but rather is part of human nature. But with management mechanism becoming more complicated, certain powers being delegated to a certain person who directs the work of an organization in the private sector or work in such an organization, the circle of common interests becomes much broader than those that fall within the immediate interests of this person. Group and individual interests begin to prevail over common ones, which can lead to corruption.