We'd like to think Great Bosses are more than fair. We want them to be as ethical and unbiased as we are. But, according to research
reported by the Harvard Business School, WE aren't as ethical or unbiased as we think. It turns out, we're susceptible, all of us, to what the researchers call "bounded ethicality." Due to a number of specific influences, we have blind spots about our own decision-making.
But there's hope. If we build an understanding of those influences into the ethics teaching and training that's done in the workplace as well as in schools, the awareness can mitigate the blind spots. I'm really interested in this topic, because I believe ethics and leadership are inseparable. In fact, I'm planning to make Ethics and Values the capstone chapter of "WORK HAPPY: WHAT GREAT BOSSES KNOW."
