Ethical leadership and employee ethical behaviour: Exploring dual-mediation paths of ethical climate and organisational justice: Empirical study on Iraqi organisations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
Due to ethical lapses of leaders, interest in ethical leadership has grown, raising important questions about the responsibility of leaders in ensuring moral and ethical conduct. Research conducted on ethical leadership failed to investigate the active role that the characteristics of ethical climate and organisational justice have an increasing or decreasing influence on the ethical leadership in the organisation's outcomes of employees' ethical behaviour. Thus, this study examined the dual-mediations of work ethical climate and organisational justice on the relation of ethical leadership and ethical behaviour of employees. A total of 620 full-time employees from five Iraqi provinces working at 33 Iraqi organisations in the field of manufacturing, retailing, medical, insurance, information technology, legal, finance, and telecommunication responded to the questionnaire survey. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the model and data analysis was carried out using structural equation modelling-partial least square (SEM-PLS). The results revealed that there is a significant relationship between ethical leadership behaviour and the ethical behaviour of employees. Primarily, the study also found that ethical climate and organisational justice play a very significant mediating role between ethical leadership and employees' ethical behaviour. © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Keywords
Employees' ethical behaviour, Ethical climate, Ethical leadership, Organisational justice
Divisions
Faculty_of_Business_and_Accountancy
Publication Title
International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
Volume
15
Issue
3