A Dual-Path Model of Ethical Leadership’s Influence on Civil Servants’ Discretionary Work Behavior: Probing the Social Learning and Social Exchange Processes
A Dual-Path Model of Ethical Leadership’s Influence on Civil Servants’ Discretionary Work Behavior: Probing the Social Learning and Social Exchange Processes
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DOI：
10.1177/00910260231196225
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发表时间：
2023-09
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Beijing Tan;Zijing Wang;Shusong Zhao;Jianqiao Liao
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作者：
Beijing Tan;Zijing Wang;Shusong Zhao;Jianqiao Liao
伦理领导的研究已成为了解公共部门领导效果的重要课题。现有文献发现，伦理领导能够显著影响下属的期望结果，但大多数学者仅从社会学习或社会交换的单一理论视角进行研究。此外，伦理领导力下行效应的边界条件尚未得到充分研究，伦理领导力为何无法有效影响员工行为，目前仍缺乏明确的理论解释。本研究探讨伦理领导影响公务员自由裁量工作行为的机制与边界条件。共有256名公务员参加了这项研究。结果表明，伦理领导通过道德效能感间接影响公务员的助人行为和额外努力行为，通过责任感间接影响公务员的额外努力行为。社会距离弱化了伦理领导与道德效能感的关系，而权力距离则强化了伦理领导与责任感的关系。这些发现拓宽了公共部门的道德领导研究，通过区分的过程中，它影响公务员的自由裁量权的工作行为。
The study of ethical leadership has emerged as an important topic for understanding the effects of leadership in the public sector. Existing literature finds that ethical leadership can significantly affect the desirable outcomes of subordinates, but most scholars only research from a single theoretical perspective of social learning or social exchange. In addition, the boundary conditions of the downward effects of ethical leadership have not been fully studied, and there is still a lack of clear theoretical explanations for why ethical leadership cannot effectively affect employee behaviors. This research examines the mechanisms and boundary conditions of ethical leadership influencing civil servants’ discretionary work behaviors. A total of 256 civil servants have participated in this study. Results revealed that ethical leadership can indirectly affect civil servants’ helping behavior and extra effort behavior through moral efficacy, and can also indirectly affect civil servants’ extra effort behavior through felt obligation. Social distance weakened the relationship between ethical leadership and moral efficacy, while power distance strengthened the relationship between ethical leadership and felt obligation. These findings broaden ethical leadership research in the public sector by differentiating the processes through which it affects civil servants’ discretionary work behaviors.