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.
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A St Andrews academic has been given a prestigious honour with a Fellowship.
Brad MacKay, vice-principal for international strategy and external relations, senior vice-principal and professor of strategy at St Andrews University, has been named among 37 leading social scientists to be conferred the title of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
The Academy’s Fellowship is made up of distinguished individuals from academic, public and private sectors, across the full breadth of the social sciences.