Ethical Leadership

Differentiated leader-member exchange justice climate and performance: Main and interactive effects

Leaders form different quality leader–member exchange (LMX) relationships with their subordinates. This variable treatment termed LMX differentiation can have negative effects on individuals' behavior and attitudes....

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The impact of ethical leadership within the recruitment context: The roles of organizational reputation applicant personality and value congruence

The present research examined the effects of corporate executive officer (CEO) ethical leadership on the job pursuit attitudes and behaviors of prospective job applicants....

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Can a leader be seen as too ethical? The curvilinear effects of ethical leadership

Ethical leadership predicts important organizational outcomes such as decreased deviant and increased organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We argued that due to the distinct nature of these two types of employee behaviors ethical leadership decreases deviance in a linear manner (i.e....

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Perceived leader integrity: Supporting the construct validity and utility of a multi-dimensional measure in two samples

The empirical study of perceived leader integrity has lagged its intuitively appealing role as a fundamental characteristic of effective leaders....

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The meaning of leader integrity: A comparative study across Anglo Asian and Germanic cultures

The current study explores and compares the meaning of leader integrity in six societies representing three culture clusters including Ireland and the U.S. (Anglo cluster) Germany and Austria (Germanic Europe cluster) as well as China (PRC) and Hong Kong (Confucian Asia cluster)....

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Ethical leadership, employee citizenship and work withdrawal behaviors: Examining mediating and moderating processes

The present study examined the mediating and moderating processes in the relationship between ethical leadership and employee citizenship behavior aswell as work withdrawal behavior using a sample of 277 employees and their supervisors from the People's Republic of China....

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Ethical leadership and group in-role performance: The mediating roles of group conscientiousness and group voice

In this paper we propose that ethical leadership will lead to higher group in-role performance. Building from and integrating several different research streams we argue that two key mechanisms for this effect are group conscientiousness (an emergent state) and group voice (a group process)....

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Re-thinking ethical leadership: An interdisciplinary integrative approach

The purpose of this paper is (1) to identify critical issues in the current literature on ethical leadership — i.e....

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Ethical leadership at work questionnaire (ELW): Development and validation of a multidimensional measure

This paper describes the development and validation of the multi-dimensional Ethical Leadership at Work (ELW) questionnaire. Based on theory interviews and a student sample we developed seven ethical leader behaviors (fairness integrity ethical guidance people orientation power sharing role clarification and concern for sustainability)....

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Situational impacts on leader ethical decision-making

Leader ethical decision-making has received a great deal of attention in the academic literature....

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