RT Article
T1 Ethical Leadership and Followers’ Moral Judgment: The Role of Followers’ Perceived Accountability and Self-leadership
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 120
IS 3
SP 381
OP 392
A1 Steinbauer, Robert
A1 Renn, Robert W.
A1 Taylor, Robert R.
A1 Njoroge, Phil K.
A2 Renn, Robert W.
A2 Taylor, Robert R.
A2 Njoroge, Phil K.
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785650408
AB A two stage model was developed and tested to explain how ethical leadership relates to followers’ ethical judgment in an organizational context. Drawing on social learning theory, ethical leadership was hypothesized to promote followers’ self-leadership focused on ethics. It was found that followers’ perceived accountability fully accounts for this relationship. In stage two, the relationship between self-leadership focused on ethics and moral judgment in a dual decision-making system was described and tested. Self-leadership focused on ethics was only related to moral judgment when followers use active judgment as opposed to their intuition. This provides support that a deliberate application of self-leadership focused on ethics leads to higher moral judgment. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research opportunities are discussed.
K1 Moral Judgment
K1 Self-leadership
K1 Perceived accountability
K1 Ethical Leadership
DO 10.1007/s10551-013-1662-x