How we communicate about values and good conduct is a challenging task in the best of circumstances. And recent corporate history — Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Parmalat, Andersen — has not provided us with the best of circumstances. In addition to the big scandals, there’s a long and easily recited list of instances of workplace misconduct: employees violate company rules, workers sabotage their peers, employees steal from their own employers, and executives overstate performance to shareholders.
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Francesca Gino is a behavioral scientist and the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is the author of Rebel Talent and Sidetracked.
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