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Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first

  • Written by Danny Samson, Professor of Management (Operations Management), University of Melbourne
imageEmployees in the study were willing to put their own interests before their employers for money.www.shutterstock.com

Up to 95% of employees in our study put their own interests before those of their employer. This was even true even if the employee stood to gain just a small fraction of what the company could have – some workers would forgo...

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