As we all know, sleep deprivation can lead to exhaustion-fueled mistakes in the workplace, whether they be a simple typo in a quarterly report or life-threatening errors while operating machinery. (Or as the FAA discovered recently, embarrassing front-page headlines about workers napping on the job.) But according to two business school professors, it can make people more unethical too.
In a forthcoming paper in the Academy of Management Journal, highlighted recently in the Financial Times, Michael Christian of the University of North Carolina?s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Aleksander Ellis of the University of Arizona?s Eller College of Management studied sleep-deprived nurses and students who?d pulled all-nighters in a sleep lab. They found that a lack ofsleep led not just to poor performance on tasks that require ?innovative thinking, risk analysis, and strategic planning??though studies have shown all those to be true?but also to increased deviant and unethical behavior in both groups. Examples included rudeness, inappropriate responses and attempts to take more money than they?d earned.
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