Ethical leadership is crucial for the success of a business. Unethical leaders ultimately end up hurting the long term success of the business for their own personal gain or for shorter term results. But a recent study out of Baylor University demonstrates, counterintuitively, that when ethical leadership isn’t handled properly, it can backfire and have surprisingly negative consequences too.
The results of the study have important implications for the future of ethical leadership and good management, demonstrating that having good ethics policies isn’t enough if consideration for worker psychology isn’t properly implemented.
