avoid this moral collapse, leaders must ensure that ideology can flow to all levels of the organization. Setting a strong example of ethical behaviour from the top down in an organization sets the tone for all members of the organization to follow and is critical to initiating ethical behaviours and sustaining them (Dess et al., 2021). A second action that leaders can take to avoid moral collapse is to ensure that a regulatory structure that enforces compliance with ethical codes is established, upheld, and legitimized within the organization (Shadnam