Moral Licensing Syndrome: How Your Category-Best Employees Can Endanger Your System

Human beings have a dual personality, that is the personality that conforms to rules and the personality that breaks them. Both work hand-in-hand to enable us to reach a balanced moral frame or what experts call moral equilibrium. Moral Licensing Syndrome (MLS) is a condition where our rebellious (or immoral) personality is allowed to manifest due to our exhibition of the conformist (moral) personality in the past.

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While moral licensing is a psychological coping mechanism by which individuals or employees ease themselves of the tension of having to constantly follow rules or routines, it poses danger of excessive abuse of rules which can bring about a disorderly system or organization.

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Therefore, the book captures the following:

• The factors or circumstances that can influence Moral Licensing Syndrome in individuals or employees.
• How employees can leverage their tendency for licensing to attain optimum efficiency rather than create deficiency in their workplace.
• How employers and managers can best deal with issues of administrative bottleneck and related matters generated by MLS in the workplace.

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The general goal of this book is to help employers, administrators, and especially HR managers to understand the nature and disposition of their employees and how they can utilize this knowledge to drive work performance and growth in their organization.