"self-serving behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe behavior that is done out of self-interest, often to the detriment of others. For example, "His self-serving behavior often meant that others were left behind in his pursuit of success."
Such self-serving behaviour will, from time to time, expose individuals and companies to undue negative publicity.
Owning a larger stock makes the return on the company's investment more significant for the large shareholder, hence a large number of researchers have suggested that large shareholders have both the incentives and power to restrain self-serving behaviour of managers (Hoskisson et al. 2002; Tihanyi et al. 2003).
PD is typically characterised by motor symptoms (31), cognitive deficits (40) in areas such as attention (41), memory (42), information processing (41) and executive functioning (43, 44) and by difficulties to engage in purposeful, self-directed, and self-serving behaviour (45).
How can organizations combat self-serving behavior?
Does business school promote self-serving behavior?
It needs to contain truth and passion, it's this that will set you apart from the self-serving, glutinous behaviours of alpha business types.
This is not to deny that unsustainable resource use may still occur, nor that some individuals may engage in self-serving and anti-social behaviour.
Shameless behaviour and self-serving rhetoric have never been in short supply during the credit crisis, with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein's insistence that he was doing "God's work" just one of the more memorable examples.
That's not the behaviour of a friend, it's the behaviour of a self-serving, politically motivated, soulless weasel".
They also found that self-serving bias extends beyond self to attributions of other in-group members' behaviour.
Self-serving attributional tendencies in annual report narratives are generally construed as purposive impression management behaviour.
