Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Almost All of You Would Cheat and Steal If the People in Charge Imply It’s Okay

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Almost All of You Would Cheat and Steal If the People in Charge Imply It’s Okay

Charlie Sorrel for Fast Company:
Would you cheat on a test to get money? Would you steal from an envelope of cash if you thought nobody would notice? What if the person in charge implied that it was acceptable to lie and steal? That’s what Dan Ariely’s Corruption Experiment set out to discover.  Read more

How Leaders Can Enable Employees to Voice More and Quit Less

Rico Lam for The London School of Economics and Political Science:
Interested in hearing genuine suggestions from subordinates? Want to reduce their turnover? Actually you can achieve both together by learning to become an ethical leader. In a recent study, my co-authors and I studied whether supervisory ethical leadership can engage employees more on their jobs, and in turn, influence the likelihood that they will speak up more and stay longer in organizations. Read more

The Origins of Ethical Failures

Dennis Gentilin for Managers.org:
In 2004, I was publically named as a “whistleblower” in a trading scandal that rocked one of Australia’s largest banks. Prior to the incident, “values”, “integrity” and “morality” were nebulous concepts I read about in textbooks. Subsequent to the incident the true meaning of these words were revealed to me. Read more

Further Evidence that Trust Is the No. 1 Ingredient for a Strong Company Culture

William Craig for Forbes:
Do you take trust for granted? Do any of us really think about it at all until it’s been lost? Questions like these become even more difficult when we transpose them into the workplace. View

Why You Need an Imaginary Scapegoat

Nir Eyal for Harvard Business Review:
DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains that he calls “they.”
“They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he blares on camera. “They don’t want you to win,” he warns. On Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Khaled urged the host, “Please, Ellen, stay away from them!” Read more

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