Top Management Ethical Leadership and Firm Performance: Mediating Role of Ethical and Procedural Justice Climate
Despite the prevailing discourses on the importance of top management ethical leadership, related theoretical and empirical developments are lacking. Drawing on institutional theory, we propose that top management ethical leadership contributes to organizational outcomes by promoting firm-level ethi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2015
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 129, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-57 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethical Leadership
B Top management B Procedural justice climate B Ethical Climate B Financial Performance B Organizational Citizenship Behavior |
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| Summary: | Despite the prevailing discourses on the importance of top management ethical leadership, related theoretical and empirical developments are lacking. Drawing on institutional theory, we propose that top management ethical leadership contributes to organizational outcomes by promoting firm-level ethical and procedural justice climates. This theoretical framework was empirically tested using multi-source data obtained from 4,468 employees of 147 Korean companies from various industries. The firm-level analysis shows that top management ethical leadership significantly predicts ethical climate, which then results in procedural justice climate that fully mediates the effects of top management ethical leadership on two organizational outcomes, namely, firm-level organizational citizenship behavior and firm financial performance. The present study provides a plausible theoretical account and empirical validation of a mechanism through which top management ethical leadership enhances organizational performance. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2144-5 |