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behavior which in our case was deception it's unethical but it's also advancing our self-interest at the expense of others that's what we found. Steve sheretta So it's easy to see how that would apply in so many areas of life and politics and worldrelations and everything else but in the workplace in the HR office at what are theimplications? And is there anything that people can do about this? I mean is this just aninteresting observation but what do we do with the observation? Jeremy yep well we urge leaders managers employees to recognize that in our angry moments wemay lose our moral compass we suggest that managers pay close attention to monitoringtheir employees when they notice that they're angry because they're angry employees aremore likely to cheat Steve sheretta So check this stationary closed if you have someone angry on the floor for missing pinsand that's yeah that's... I mean I'm joking, of course but that's sort of the idea is that there'sa propensity now in someone who's angry to do something that isn't going to be good forthe organization Maurice Schweitzer well I think yeah I think this Jeremy's pointing out it's important for us to recognize it'strue for us that is our own moral compass becomes less clearly pointed north when wefeel angry and it's true for others that is other people are going to behave more strategicallymore self in a more self-interested way in a less ethical way when they're feeling angryand again it could be some unrelated trigger that has made them feel that way Steve sheretta put your suggestion that there's a there's a benefit to developing organizationally somekind of a self-awareness in people that will benefit the organization is that right maybeyou could elaborate on that idea a little bit right