Benefit of organizational misconduct: Others in group may work harder, study says
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 19:40
in Health & Medicine
Misconduct within an organization is generally seen as a predicament at best, a catastrophe at worst. But a new study shows that such misconduct, or “deviance,” can prove beneficial by causing “non-deviant” members of the group to work harder in order to alleviate their own discomfort with the organization’s tarnished image.