Leaders have been shown to sometimes act self-servingly. Yet, leaders do not act in isolation and the perceptions of the ethical climate in which leaders operate is expected to contribute to employees taking counteractive measures against their leader (that is, employees’ desire for...

Extant research has demonstrated that underdog expectations - individuals’ perceptions that others view them as unlikely to succeed - can have positive implications for motivating performance. In this paper, we draw on self-determination theory to examine how and when underdog expectations can...