Personality Characteristics as Predictors of the Leader’s Ethical Leadership in Regular Times and in Times of Crisis

Personality traits broadly impact people’s behavior and decisions in the organizational realm. One of leading personality models suggests that personalities can be expressed by five dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, pleasantness, extroversion, neuroticism. While these characteristics are stable most human lives, they assumed more pronounced times crisis, since crises weak situations. According situational strength theory, people less aware desired rules codes conduct Thus, tend rely on their existing procedures. The current work aimed examine if, during a personal manager will thus have larger influence ethical leadership. In three studies, we show strong link between agreeableness conscientiousness leadership managers. However, contrary our hypotheses, is stronger regular not crisis. Our findings emphasize importance characterizing managers’ for organizations’ sustainability. Second, highlight how significant relationship managers employees.