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The Price Leaders Pay for Cutting Ethical Corners
Asking employees to take questionable shortcuts can hurt their motivation and their performance.
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Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for leaders to ask their employees to cross ethical lines. Consider the following examples from a pilot study we recently conducted: A sales representative at a retail company was asked to grant credit approval to unqualified customers who were friends of her supervisor; a field technician at a communications company was asked by management to close telephone repair tickets for elderly customers whose phones were not fixed; and an engineer in the transportation industry was asked to approve projects that he felt were at risk for structural failure.
and it s interesting because many presidents are at their most vulnerable after a big setback. for bush it was after the harriet myers nomination was pulled back after a disastrous attempt to get her confirmed. for trump not so. he seems to sink the lowest and represent the gravest threat to himself when he is humiliated or belittled. and impeachment is something that will likely do both. i think that s right. last fall for the circus i went over and talked to steve bannon. you can have a lot of views about bannon. you can certainly have a lot of views not even apart from his views of things, even his perspicasity. and he s been through some stuff with donald trump and i think he has a pretty good read on trump trump s psyche. bannon said this is going to have a long-term psychic cost. he was predicting at that point.