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The paper provides critical insights into the complementary relationship between bad leadership and followership, and argues that followers in particular have a serious moral case to answer for their complicity. Suggestions are offered for strengthening their capacity to respond.

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While both workers and bosses may engage in unethical and unlawful behaviour, neither would succeed without followers. Strategies designed to curtail their support serve to reduce the incidence of crime and corruption in the office and elsewhere.

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I attempted offer a way of invoking and strengthening private conscience as an effective countermeasure against corporate crime and corruption.

Dr John Solas
University of Southern Queensland

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This page is a summary of: The banality of bad leadership and followership, Society and Business Review, February 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/sbr-09-2015-0049.
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