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On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior
The popular media has repeatedly pointed to pride as one of the key factors motivating leaders to behave unethically. However, given the devastating consequences that leader unethical behavior may have, a more scientific account of the role of pride is warranted. The present study differentiates bet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3180-0 |
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author | Sanders, Stacey Wisse, Barbara Van Yperen, Nico W. Rus, Diana |
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description | The popular media has repeatedly pointed to pride as one of the key factors motivating leaders to behave unethically. However, given the devastating consequences that leader unethical behavior may have, a more scientific account of the role of pride is warranted. The present study differentiates between authentic and hubristic pride and assesses its impact on leader ethical behavior, while taking into consideration the extent to which leaders find it important to their self-concept to be a moral person. In two experiments we found that with higher levels of moral identity, authentically proud leaders are more likely to engage in ethical behavior than hubristically proud leaders, and that this effect is mediated by leaders’ motivation to act selflessly. A field survey among organizational leaders corroborated that moral identity may bring the positive effect of authentic pride and the negative effect of hubristic pride on leader ethical behavior to the forefront. |
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spelling | pubmed-64350462019-04-15 On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior Sanders, Stacey Wisse, Barbara Van Yperen, Nico W. Rus, Diana J Bus Ethics Article The popular media has repeatedly pointed to pride as one of the key factors motivating leaders to behave unethically. However, given the devastating consequences that leader unethical behavior may have, a more scientific account of the role of pride is warranted. The present study differentiates between authentic and hubristic pride and assesses its impact on leader ethical behavior, while taking into consideration the extent to which leaders find it important to their self-concept to be a moral person. In two experiments we found that with higher levels of moral identity, authentically proud leaders are more likely to engage in ethical behavior than hubristically proud leaders, and that this effect is mediated by leaders’ motivation to act selflessly. A field survey among organizational leaders corroborated that moral identity may bring the positive effect of authentic pride and the negative effect of hubristic pride on leader ethical behavior to the forefront. Springer Netherlands 2016-05-03 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6435046/ /pubmed/30996502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3180-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Sanders, Stacey Wisse, Barbara Van Yperen, Nico W. Rus, Diana On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title | On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title_full | On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title_fullStr | On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title_full_unstemmed | On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title_short | On Ethically Solvent Leaders: The Roles of Pride and Moral Identity in Predicting Leader Ethical Behavior |
title_sort | on ethically solvent leaders: the roles of pride and moral identity in predicting leader ethical behavior |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3180-0 |
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