New Frontiers in (Un)ethical Leadership Research

Abstract

While researchers have identified a variety of situations when leaders engage in morally hazardous behaviors at work such as abusing subordinates, engaging in unethical behaviors that benefit the organization and/or its members, and requesting subordinates to engage in unethical behaviors as well as the antecedents and outcomes of those unethical leader behaviors, there are still many unknowns when it comes to when those unethical leader behaviors occur and what the consequences are. This symposium includes four papers that approach the above questions using diverse theoretical perspectives and thus contributes the (un)ethical leadership literature. The Source of Sin: How and Why Creative People Get More Unethical Requests Presenter: Ke Michael Mai; National U. of Singapore Presenter: Feng Qiu; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Presenter: Brian J. Lucas; Cornell U. How Leaders’ Past Misconduct Affects Leniency towards Subordinates Presenter: Wei Jee Ong; National U. of Singapore Contextualizing the Influence of Leader Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior Presenter: Lei Huang; Auburn U. Presenter: Ted A. Paterson; Oregon State U. Presenter: Joel B. Carnevale; Syracuse U. Presenter: Michael Phillipich; Auburn U. The Effects of Observed Abusive Supervision on Third Parties Presenter: Mengjie Xu; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Presenter: Feng Qiu; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Presenter: Orlando C. Richard; UMass Amherst