Ethical Leadership Is Key to Surviving a Crisis, Study Finds
Recently published research finds that ethical leadership isn’t required for success but is for a team to survive failure
February 3, 2021
You don’t have to be an ethical leader to win a Super Bowl or an election or rise to the level of CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
But according to a new study co-written by Kyle Emich, associate professor of management in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, possessing the characteristics of “ethical leadership” is absolutely essential in order to steer an organization through a crisis.