Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?

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Autor(a) principal: Sikorsky, Mathilde
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19165
Resumo: The research aims at exploring the influence of ethical leadership on employees’ behaviors on an individual level. It first studies the research that has been done on ethical leadership in order to provide an overview, and then explores the potential outcomes triggered by the phenomenon on employees’ behaviors. A quantitative analysis was employed with a survey of 131 respondents realized via emailing and social media. The study suggests that ethical leadership influences different variables both positively and negatively. One the one hand, it influence positively related with moral awareness, job satisfaction, motivation, and prosocial behaviors. On the other hand, ethical leadership is negatively related with organizational misbehaviors and counterproductive work behaviors.
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spelling Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?Ethical leadershipJob satisfactionMotivationMoral awarenessOrganizational misbehaviorsCounterproductive misbehaviorsLiderança éticaSatisfação no trabalhoMotivaçãoConsciência moralComportamentos inadequados na organizaçãoMaus comportamentos contraproducentesLiderançaÉticaComportamento organizacional -- Organizational behaviorThe research aims at exploring the influence of ethical leadership on employees’ behaviors on an individual level. It first studies the research that has been done on ethical leadership in order to provide an overview, and then explores the potential outcomes triggered by the phenomenon on employees’ behaviors. A quantitative analysis was employed with a survey of 131 respondents realized via emailing and social media. The study suggests that ethical leadership influences different variables both positively and negatively. One the one hand, it influence positively related with moral awareness, job satisfaction, motivation, and prosocial behaviors. On the other hand, ethical leadership is negatively related with organizational misbehaviors and counterproductive work behaviors.A pesquisa visa explorar a influência da liderança ética no comportamento dos funcionários em um nível individual. Primeiramente, ele estuda a pesquisa realizada sobre liderança ética para fornecer uma visão geral e explora os possíveis resultados desencadeados pelo fenômeno no comportamento dos funcionários. Uma análise quantitativa foi empregada com uma pesquisa de 131 respondentes realizada via e-mail e mídia social. O estudo sugere que a liderança ética influencia diferentes variáveis, tanto positiva quanto negativamente. Por um lado, a influência está positivamente relacionada com a consciência moral, a satisfação no trabalho, a motivação e os comportamentos prósociais. Por outro lado, a liderança ética está relacionada negativamente com os maus comportamentos organizacionais e com os comportamentos de trabalho contraproducentes.2019-12-13T10:58:25Z2019-01-09T00:00:00Z2019-01-092018-10info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfapplication/octet-streamhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/19165TID:202298205engSikorsky, Mathildeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-09T17:29:49Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/19165Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:13:22.309591Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
title Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
spellingShingle Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
Sikorsky, Mathilde
Ethical leadership
Job satisfaction
Motivation
Moral awareness
Organizational misbehaviors
Counterproductive misbehaviors
Liderança ética
Satisfação no trabalho
Motivação
Consciência moral
Comportamentos inadequados na organização
Maus comportamentos contraproducentes
Liderança
Ética
Comportamento organizacional -- Organizational behavior
title_short Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
title_full Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
title_fullStr Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
title_full_unstemmed Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
title_sort Ethical leadership: What is it and why does it matter?
author Sikorsky, Mathilde
author_facet Sikorsky, Mathilde
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sikorsky, Mathilde
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ethical leadership
Job satisfaction
Motivation
Moral awareness
Organizational misbehaviors
Counterproductive misbehaviors
Liderança ética
Satisfação no trabalho
Motivação
Consciência moral
Comportamentos inadequados na organização
Maus comportamentos contraproducentes
Liderança
Ética
Comportamento organizacional -- Organizational behavior
topic Ethical leadership
Job satisfaction
Motivation
Moral awareness
Organizational misbehaviors
Counterproductive misbehaviors
Liderança ética
Satisfação no trabalho
Motivação
Consciência moral
Comportamentos inadequados na organização
Maus comportamentos contraproducentes
Liderança
Ética
Comportamento organizacional -- Organizational behavior
description The research aims at exploring the influence of ethical leadership on employees’ behaviors on an individual level. It first studies the research that has been done on ethical leadership in order to provide an overview, and then explores the potential outcomes triggered by the phenomenon on employees’ behaviors. A quantitative analysis was employed with a survey of 131 respondents realized via emailing and social media. The study suggests that ethical leadership influences different variables both positively and negatively. One the one hand, it influence positively related with moral awareness, job satisfaction, motivation, and prosocial behaviors. On the other hand, ethical leadership is negatively related with organizational misbehaviors and counterproductive work behaviors.
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