RT Article
T1 Ethical Leadership with Both “Moral Person” and “Moral Manager” Aspects: Scale Development and Cross-Cultural Validation
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 158
IS 2
SP 547
OP 565
A1 Zhu, Weichun
A1 Zheng, Xiaoming
A1 He, Hongwei
A1 Wang, Gang
A1 Zhang, Xi
A2 Zheng, Xiaoming
A2 He, Hongwei
A2 Wang, Gang
A2 Zhang, Xi
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785595865
AB The importance of ethical leadership in organizations has been increasingly recognized, especially as a shield against unethical employee behaviors and corporate misconducts. Ethical leadership has been theorized to include two aspects: “moral person” and “moral manager.” This conceptualization resonates well with Chinese teachings of Confucius on leadership and management—namely xiuji (cultivating oneself) and anren (bringing the good to others). Based on the theoretical framework of ethical leadership, we develop and validate a new ethical leadership measure (ELM). Through qualitative studies (i.e., face-to-face interviews, open-ended surveys, and literature review) and five quantitative studies, we establish the reliability and convergent, discriminant, and predictive validities of the ELM in a Chinese context. In addition, using a US sample, we find that the ELM has partial measurement invariance across Chinese and American contexts.
K1 Xiuji–anren
K1 Moral Manager
K1 Moral Person
K1 Ethical leadership measure
K1 Ethical Leadership
DO 10.1007/s10551-017-3740-y