The Rogue Employee

Abstract

Like it or not, employees have always been able to hurt their employers. Confidential documents are exchanged for brown envelopes. An internal memo is leaked to a journalist, access to the deeper reaches of the company IT system is passed to a third party, someone conducts an unauthorized or illegal trade. Deliberate actions of this kind can be extremely damaging, raising serious questions about an organization’s leadership, culture, and values. Fortunately, they have also been relatively rare.