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Journal of Business Ethics
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics 1/2015

01.06.2015

How Leaders Recover (or Not) from Publicized Sex Scandals

verfasst von: Steven L. Grover, Marcus C. Hasel

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Abstract

The leader integrity literature has described how professional behavior influences perceptions of integrity, yet behavior in leaders’ personal lives potentially affects those perceptions. The present paper examined how personal life behavior affects leaders. We assessed high profile political sex scandals to explore the research questions of how indiscretions in personal life affect leaders and how leaders recover from public revelations of sexual indiscretions. The results revealed that whether politicians survived the scandal depended on (a) the degree to which the indiscretion deviated from accepted norms, (b) the degree to which the behavior departed from the politician’s expressed values, (c) the leader’s political power (or value), and (d) whether the leader fully engaged in atonement under conditions when denying the allegations is not possible. These components were inter-related such that atonement was possible if the behavior was neither too extreme nor out of character and the leader had sufficient political power. The model was then tested with a sample of business executives engaged in sex scandals, finding support for its elements.
Vorheriger Artikel Institutionally Driven Moral Conflicts and Managerial Action: Dirty Hands or Permissible Complicity?
Nächster Artikel Research Note and Review of the Empirical Ethical Decision-Making Literature: Boundary Conditions and Extensions

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Fußnoten
1
Silvio Berlusconi resigned as Premiere as part of European Union bailout of Italy in 2011 and then was found guilty of charges concerning the case in question in 2013.
 
2
Strafgesetzbuch §§ 80–358, Statutory State Law Alabama §§ 13A-6-61.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
How Leaders Recover (or Not) from Publicized Sex Scandals
verfasst von
Steven L. Grover
Marcus C. Hasel
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2146-3

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