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Does it pay to be a rule breaker in business?
One of the first lessons we learn in life is not to break the rules – but new research from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School reveals there might actually be perks to being a rebel in the business world.
Centre for Responsible Leadership
The Centre for Responsible Leadership conducts research and translates evidence on leadership directly into practice for senior professionals in sectors such as financial services, oil and gas, professional services and the public sector across the world.
Our research partners include the Financial Services Culture Board and Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions.
Research impact areas
Building cultures of constructive challenge
Funded by Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions and conducted with the Financial Services Culture Board, our work in live team meetings with over 400 employees produced the first concrete, evidence-based guidance on how leaders can get their teams to speak up.
How legislation shapes accountability for misconduct
We showed that a landmark corporate governance law designed to raise standards made firms 26% less likely to hold their chief executives accountable after wrongdoing, with direct implications for how policymakers design accountability rules.
Ethical leadership and employee misconduct
Our studies in the United States and China provided organisations with evidence that who they promote into leadership roles has measurable consequences for misconduct across their workforce.
How leaders shape the people around them
How communication impacts organisational performance
Reviewing 260 studies across five decades, we mapped the full landscape of leader communication research, showing how what leaders say, how they say it and the nonverbal signals they send shape follower behaviour, organisational outcomes and even national performance.
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The challenges facing leaders today are compounded by climate change, digital disruption and social inequality. Organisations need responsible leadership that draws on evidence-based research to tackle the larger social, environmental and technological challenges of our time. We are not just describing the problem. We are building the tools, the evidence and the community that leaders need to do something about it.
Responsible Leadership in a Complex World
The Centre for Responsible Leadership's flagship executive programme, designed for senior ambitious professionals in all sectors.
Our influence
Professor Celia Moore is an Academic Fellow of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, placing our research directly inside the bodies that set conduct standards for financial services. Our faculty have worked with the Financial Conduct Authority and the National Health Service on how to build more ethical organisations, and our partnership with the Financial Services Culture Board and Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions ensures our findings reach practitioners across financial services, industry and government.
Our advisory board draws senior leaders from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Revolut, Oliver Wyman and A&O Shearman. Our working relationships with these institutions shape how financial services, technology and public policy are run globally.
Insights from our experts
How leaders can get their teams to push back
³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ research has identified evidence-based strategies managers can use to build teams with the confidence to challenge them.
How AI could use language to shape our reality
Throughout human history, we have used language to define our experience of the world. But what happens if AI develops this capability?
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