RT Article
T1 Measuring and Differentiating Perceptions of Supervisor and Top Leader Ethics
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 113
IS 3
SP 415
OP 428
A1 Kottke, Janet L.
A1 Pelletier, Kathie L.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785647121
AB We report the results of two studies that evaluated the perceptions of supervisor and top leader ethics. In our first study, we re-analyzed data from Pelletier and Bligh (J Bus Ethics 67:359–374, 2006) and found that the Perceptions of Ethical Leadership Scale from that study could be used to differentiate perceptions of supervisor and top leader ethics. In a second study with a different sample, we examined the relationships between (1) individual employees’ perceptions of top managers’ and immediate supervisors’ ethical tendencies, and (2) organizational climate, confidence in top leadership direction, commitment, and citizenship behavior. Results indicated that employee perceptions of top managers’ and supervisors’ ethics were significantly related to climate, top leadership direction, organizational commitment and the OCB dimension, civic virtue.
K1 Ethics measurement
K1 Organizational Culture
K1 Top leader ethics
K1 Immediate supervisor ethics
DO 10.1007/s10551-012-1312-8