MIT Sloan Management Review Article on An Easy Way to Encourage Employees to Follow Company Rules

To improve compliance with organizational rules, create more variety in the order in which employees perform tasks.

Organizations set rules for a reason — whether that reason is safety, ethics, fairness, quality, or efficiency. Unfortunately, previous research has found that employees often break company rules, and that can have negative consequences for their employers.

About the Author

Martha E. Mangelsdorf (@memangelsdorf) is the editorial director of MIT Sloan Management Review.

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