Leadership and persistency in spontaneuous dishonesty

Susanne Braun () and Lars Hornuf Hornuf ()
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Susanne Braun: , Durham University,Business School
Lars Hornuf Hornuf: Institute for Industrial Relations and Labour Law in the European Union,

No 201510, IAAEU Discussion Papers from Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)

Abstract: Extensive evidence shows that when given the opportunity, people cheat for monetary rewards, but only to the extent that they can keep a positive self-concept. In this study, we investigate various factors that may influence the degree to which people can keep their positive self-concept while cheating for monetary gains. We find that authentic leadership, gender, cheating norm, experience of cheating, and expectations of others’ cheating behavior have no effect on participants’ spontaneous dishonestyon an abstract task. Therefore, reducing people’s cheating behavior might be a long-term project for the management of fraudulent organizations and more difficult than might be expected.

Keywords: Cheating; Dishonest behavior; Authentic leadership; self-concept maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 J53 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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