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.
One bad apple, the saying goes, can ruin the bunch. So, too, with employees.
See The Original Blog:
https://hbr.org/2018/03/research-how-one-bad-employee-can-corrupt-a-whole-team?fbclid=IwAR0Mcsch0SwszptPcPqODD3NQ4G3B-PCK7B4BGYGotcXDD1ts1Qj7KU-VBc
