Followers’ Reactions to Self-Serving Leaders: The Influence of the Organization’s Ethical Climate

Even though leaders are seen as trustworthy, they sometimes behave in a self-serving way. In order to understand employees’ reactions, we examine followers’ trust, desire for retaliation, and supervisor-directed deviance towards a leader who behaves self- servingly, and we explore how the organization’s ethical climate moderates these relationships. We predict and find evidence across two studies that followers show more desire for retaliation...