A missing element in discussions of ethical leadership is: What happens to enforcement of ethics if it is the managers who are behaving unethically? In this article we address this question by describing a framework of upward ethical leadership. This framework expands conceptualizations of leadership beyond top-down models to a view that considers employees to be active participants in the lead...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw on ethical leadership and regulatory focus theory perspectives to examine the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between ethical leadership and voice behavior, and it addresses the moderating effect of promotion focus on the relationship between ethical leadership and work engagement. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a sa...

The studies reported in Chapters 3, 4, and 6 highlight how individuals across different contexts differ in their implicit assumptions, beliefs, and expectations about what ethical leadership should entail. As argued in Chapter 2, such differences in implicit theories of ethical leadership (IELT) may lead to variability in how these individuals perceive and understand the characteristics and beh...

In the nursing profession, leadership plays a significant role in creating motivation and thus enabling nurses to provide high quality care. Ethics is an essential component of leadership qualifications and the ethical leader can help create an ethical atmosphere, offer ethical guidance, and ensure the occupational satisfaction of personnel through prioritizing moralities. However, some issues ...

We develop and test a model linking ethical leadership with unit ethical culture, both across and within organizational levels, examining how both leadership and culture relate to ethical cognitions and behaviors of lower-level followers. The data were collected from 2,572 U.S. Army soldiers representing three organizational levels deployed in combat. Findings provide limited support for simple...

Fundamentally, public services must be of high quality so as to satisfy the wants and needs of the beneficiaries. But it’s worrisome to discover that in Uganda, public services provided are of poor quality due to unethical behaviors and wanting leadership. The purpose of this study is to show that transformational leadership can advance ethical culture to spur provision of quality services. A r...

Our literature review focuses on the emerging construct of ethical leadership and compares this construct with related concepts that share a common concern for a moral dimension of leadership (e.g., spiritual, authentic, and transformational leadership). Drawing broadly from the intersection of the ethics and leadership literatures, we offer propositions about the antecedents and outcomes of et...

Ethical leadership involves the execution of a behavioral pattern in which a man or woman attempts to lead from a virtuous set of values and beliefs. Ethical leadership investigates relationships between ethical leaders and follower outcomes with more research needed on organizational identity and outcomes. This research provides a socio-rhetorical analysis of Old Testament texture to investiga...