ABSTRACT
The Non-fraudster Manager appears to represent the good side of management with its traits of honesty, trustworthiness and authenticity. It coincides with the characteristics of transformational leadership. As demonstrated earlier the literature shows many empirical studies on leaders demonstrate moral reasoning, ethics and trust, which are the substrata to authenticity. Being able to apologise implies morality to their co-workers. Of the non-fraudster managers, there is a division between those who used self-promotion and those who used ingratiation as described by the co-workers. In contrast, the two precepts of impression management, morality and authenticity show some relationship with the two groups of co-workers but in different way. Overall, non-fraudster managers apologise, admit their weaknesses, are conscientious and work long hours. The fraud predictors that reflected the malevolent Executive Impression Management the most, are the Social Psychological factors of sociability, persuasibility and manipulation with depression as being the least noticed by the co-workers.
