Ethical leadership and follower voice and performance : the role of follower identifications and entity morality beliefs
Zhu, Weichun and He, Hongwei and Treviño, Linda K. and Chao, Melody M. and Wang, Weiyue (2015) Ethical leadership and follower voice and performance : the role of follower identifications and entity morality beliefs. Leadership Quarterly, 26 (5). 702–718. ISSN 1048-9843 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.01.004)
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Abstract
Previous studies have investigated a number of psychological mechanisms that mediate the relationships between ethical leaderships and follower outcomes. Follower organizational identification has been found to mediate the relationship between ethical leadership and follower job performance. In this research, we incorporate a second distinct and theoretically important type of social identification process, relational identification with the leader, and examine their mediating effects on follower performance and voice outcomes. Further, we bring the implicit theory of morality to the behavioral ethics literature and examine follower morality beliefs as a moderator. Using a Romanian sample, we found that ethical leadership has an indirect effect on follower job performance and voice (through the mediating mechanisms of both organizational and relational identifications) and that these relationships are stronger for followers who held the implicit theory that a person’s moral character is fixed. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Zhu, Weichun, He, Hongwei ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6329-7329, Treviño, Linda K., Chao, Melody M. and Wang, Weiyue;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 51588 Dates: DateEvent31 October 2015Published31 January 2015Published Online13 January 2015AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of productsDepartment: Strathclyde Business School > Marketing Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Feb 2015 14:01 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 00:24 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51588