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Does Ethical Leadership Matter in Government? Effects on Organizational Commitment, Absenteeism, and Willingness to Report Ethical Problems

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In this paper, the consequences of ethical leadership in public sector organizations were assessed and the results indicated that ethical leadership reduced absenteeism and had a positive influence on organizational commitment and willingness to report ethical problems.
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Recent ethical scandals involving managers in government organizations have highlighted the need for more research on ethical leadership in public sector organizations. To assess the consequences of ethical leadership, 161 managers in a large state government agency and 415 of their direct reports were surveyed, and personnel records were obtained to measure absenteeism. Results indicate that after controlling for the effects of employee characteristics, perceptions of procedural fairness, and supportive leader behavior, ethical leadership reduced absenteeism and had a positive influence on organizational commitment and willingness to report ethical problems. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are presented.

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Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Among Psychiatric Technicians. Technical Report No. 16.

Abstract: Abstract : A study is reported of the variations in organizational commitment and job satisfaction, as related to subsequent turnover in a sample of recently-employed psychiatric technician trainees. A longitudinal study was made across a 10 1/2 month period, with attitude measures collected at four points in time. For this sample, job satisfaction measures appeared better able to differentiate future stayers from leavers in the earliest phase of the study. With the passage of time, organizational commitment measures proved to be a better predictor of turnover, and job satisfaction failed to predict turnover. The findings are discussed in the light of other related studies, and possible explanations are examined. (Modified author abstract)
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Ethical and empowering leadership and leader effectiveness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the independent and joint relationships of empowering leadership and ethical leadership with leadership effectiveness and the mediating role of leader exchange relations (LMX), affective commitment, and leader effectiveness.
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Exploring the impact of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in public sector organizations: the mediating role of psychological empowerment

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of ethical leadership on employee attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction) and examined the role of psychological empowerment as a potential mediator of these relationships and found a positive relationship between ethical leadership and both employee attitudes and further revealed that psychological empowerment fully mediates the relationship between emotional commitment and affective commitment.
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Does a public service ethic encourage ethical behaviour? public service motivation, ethical leadership and the willingness to report ethical problems

TL;DR: In this article, the degree to which public service motivation (PSM) predicts the ethical behavior or behavioural intention of government employees was investigated. But the authors focused on the potential consequences that they may experience by reporting unethical conduct within their agencies, and they found that supervisors with higher PSM were perceived by their subordinates as exhibiting ethical leadership.
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Responsible leadership and employee's proenvironmental behavior: The role of organizational commitment, green shared vision, and internal environmental locus of control

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a research model that elaborates the mechanism through which responsible leadership influences employee's proenvironmental behavior, and differentiated these two mechanisms by proposing employee's internal environmental locus of control as a moderator.
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Leadership in Organizations

Gary A. Yukl
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