Remove Conflict of Interest Remove Ethics Remove Leadership Remove Project
article thumbnail

When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

Although including everyone involved in the project in an email is a clear sign of transparency, our results indicated that people evaluate this practice as signalling distrust, which reduces their own trust in, and commitment to, the organization. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly.

How To 8