myAIPMResearch: How One Bad Employee Can Corrupt a Whole Team
Stephen Dimmock and William C. Gerken | Harvard Business Review
Summary
"Even your most honest employees become more likely to commit misconduct if they work alongside a dishonest individual. And while it would be nice to think that the honest employees would prompt the dishonest employees to better choices, that’s rarely the case. Among co-workers, it appears easier to learn bad behavior than good. A recent study has found that financial advisors are 37% more likely to commit misconduct if they encounter a new co-worker with a history of misconduct. This result implies that misconduct has a social multiplier of 1.59 — meaning that, on average, each case of misconduct results in an additional 0.59 cases of misconduct through peer effects."
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Research: How One Bad Employee Can Corrupt a Whole Team, Stephen Dimmock and William C. Gerken, Harvard Business Review, 2020