Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Our research draws upon “moral licensing” theory which asserts, essentially, that doing good things gives us license to do bad things later. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. In other words, compliance leads to deviance.
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