This research elucidates the role of ethical leadership in employee feedback seeking by examining how and when ethical leadership may exert a positive influence on feedback seeking. Using matched reports from 64 supervisors and 265 of their immediate employees from a hotel group located in a major city in China, we proposed and tested a moderated mediation model that examines leader-member exch...

The results reported in Chapter 3 are consistent with the premise of this dissertation that a comprehensive understanding of how ethical leadership works requires a closer look at the variation in followers’ expectations of the leader. To date, such empirical research on follower expectations of ethical leadership has been limited. However, Chapter 3 belongs to a small group of studies that rev...

Several leadership and ethics scholars suggest that the transformational leadership process is predicated on a divergent set of ethical values compared to transactional leadership. Theoretical accounts declare that deontological ethics should be associated with transformational leadership while transactional leadership is likely related to teleological ethics. However, very little empirical res...

Background: Ethical leadership has emerged as a new approach in the field of leadership and it has provided the foundation for creating and enhancing individual and organizational effectiveness by prioritizing ethics in the organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify the consequences of ethical leadership using a meta-analysis approach. Method: The present study is desc...

The paper, from the perspective of ethical theories, presents and analyzes aspects morality that fall under responsible leadership in field business ethics. It is an assumption idea derived aspect governed by interest, which can be disguised for sake personal and/or material profit. In addition, answers are offered to questions concerning importance relevance corporate social responsibility, as...

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Background: In the today's world, individual performance is affected by moral issues and human interaction, which should prevail in organizations. The role of ethical leadership in internalization of moral roles and impact on staff’s commitment and promotion of performance, is very important. The ethical leader can have a fundamental role in the training of positive emotions and responsibility ...

Considering the implications of social exchange theory as a context for social role behavior, we tested relations between ethical leadership and both person- and task-focused organizational citizenship behavior and examined the roles played by employee gender and politics perceptions. Although social exchange theory predicts that ethical leadership is positively associated with citizenship, soc...