Stand by your group: Loyalty can blur ethics line
March 06, 2024
March 06, 2024
ITHACA, New York, March 6 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Calling for loyalty to a group, rather than to an individual, was more effective in eliciting followers' compliance with unethical requests, a Cornell researcher found.
What's more, the research showed, followers of a group viewed their bad behavior in the name of a larger cause as righteous.
Angus Hildreth, assistant professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Joh . . .
Calling for loyalty to a group, rather than to an individual, was more effective in eliciting followers' compliance with unethical requests, a Cornell researcher found.
What's more, the research showed, followers of a group viewed their bad behavior in the name of a larger cause as righteous.
Angus Hildreth, assistant professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Joh . . .