Many managers and researchers understand the importance of ethical leadership and they are trying to use it as an instrument for developing their organization. Yet little empirical research focuses on an ethical dimension of leadership. For this reaso...
Many managers and researchers understand the importance of ethical leadership and they are trying to use it as an instrument for developing their organization. Yet little empirical research focuses on an ethical dimension of leadership. For this reason, this study reviewed conceptual definitions of ethical leadership and examined the connections of ethical leadership with trust in leader and organizational effectiveness.
To perform this empirical study, the data for statistical analysis was collected from 219 employees of 10 public research organizations through a self-reporting Questionnaire. Major findings of this study can be summarized as follows.
Firstly in the relationship among ethical leadership, trust in leader and organizational effectiveness, the more leaders have ethical leadership the more subordinates trust their leader and the organization has organizational effectiveness which is composed of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Secondly, the more subordinates trust their leader the more the organization has organizational effectiveness. Thirdly, trust in leader acts as a mediating role in the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational effectiveness, especially as a partial mediating role for job satisfaction and a full mediating role for organizational commitment.