Ethical leadership and organizational commitment: the dual perspective of social exchange and empowerment
Ethical leadership and organizational commitment: the dual perspective of social exchange and empowerment
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DOI：
10.1108/lodj-11-2020-0479
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发表时间：
2021-06
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Dongkyu Kim;C. Vandenberghe
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作者：
Dongkyu Kim;C. Vandenberghe
鉴于最近突出的道德丑闻（如特斯拉，优步）和道德管理的需求日益增加，商业道德的重要性最近激增。一个需要进一步研究的领域是道德领导者如何培养追随者的组织承诺。基于社会交换理论，本研究提出伦理领导通过组织支持感与追随者的情感承诺和规范承诺相关。此外，基于自决理论，我们预计追随者心理赋权会积极调节道德领导力和承诺成分之间的关系。设计/方法/方法使用来自多个组织（N = 297）的员工的三波研究收集数据在加拿大。研究结果表明，道德领导通过组织支持感与下属的情感承诺和规范承诺存在显著正相关。此外，道德操守领导和POS之间的关系在高层次的赋权更强。这种调节作用扩展到道德领导和承诺components.Originality/valueThis研究计数之间的间接关系，已审查道德领导的追随者的组织承诺和边界条件与这种关系的机制的少数调查。此外，我们的研究结果是在控制变革型领导的情况下获得的，这突出了道德领导的增量有效性。
PurposeGiven recent prominent ethical scandals (e.g. Tesla, Uber) and the increasing demand for ethical management, the importance of business ethics has recently surged. One area that needs further research regards how ethical leaders can foster followers’ organizational commitment. Drawing upon social exchange theory, the current research proposes that ethical leadership relates to follower affective and normative commitment through perceived organizational support (POS). Moreover, based on self-determination theory, we expected follower psychological empowerment to positively moderate the relationship between ethical leadership and commitment components.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using a three-wave study among employees from multiple organizations (N = 297) in Canada. Structural equations modeling and bootstrapping analyses were applied to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results showed that ethical leadership was positively related to follower affective and normative commitment through POS. Furthermore, the relationship between ethical leadership and POS was stronger at high levels of empowerment. This moderating effect extended to the indirect relationship between ethical leadership and commitment components.Originality/valueThis study counts among the few investigations that have examined the mechanisms linking ethical leadership to followers’ organizational commitment and boundary conditions associated with this relationship. Moreover, our findings were obtained while controlling for transformational leadership, which highlights the incremental validity of ethical leadership.