A Scale to Assess Ethical Leadership of Indian Private and Public Sector Managers

Three hundred forty middle-level managers from two private and two public sector manufacturing companies in India rated their superiors on 22 items of ethical leadership. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two dimensions of ethical leadership: (a) empowerment, and (b) motive and cha...

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Authors: Khuntia, Rooplekha (Author) ; Suar, Damodar (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2004, 卷: 49, 發布: 1, Pages: 13-26
Further subjects:B Ethical Leadership
B motive and character
B Job performance
B Commitment
B unethical practices
B Empowerment
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總結:Three hundred forty middle-level managers from two private and two public sector manufacturing companies in India rated their superiors on 22 items of ethical leadership. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two dimensions of ethical leadership: (a) empowerment, and (b) motive and character. Items of the scale had high reliability, validity, and discriminative power. On two dimensions of ethical leadership, the superiors self-rated themselves more favorably than their subordinates rated them. This justified the proposal to consider the subordinates' ratings to their superiors in assessing ethical leadership. Subordinates perceived their superiors more ethical in private sector than in public sector. Subordinates' manipulative behavior, and cheating in performance and misuse of finance were less frequent in the presence of ethical superiors. Also, ethical superiors enhanced the job performance, job involvement and affective commitment of their subordinates but not their continuance commitment.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000013853.80287.da