How Does Perceived Integrity in Leadership Matter to Firms in a Transitional Economy?
| Autor: | Nan Zhou, Hugh M. O'Neill, Yinghong Susan Wei |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Affect (psychology) General Business Management and Accounting Outcome (game theory) Organizational performance Ethical leadership Strategy implementation Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Economy 0502 economics and business Market orientation 060301 applied ethics Business Business and International Management Business ethics Dynamic capabilities Law 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business Ethics. 167:623-641 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0697 0167-4544 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-019-04168-x |
| Popis: | Perceived integrity of managers affects employee attitudes. Yet its impact on employee behavior and organizational performance is unknown. Addressing this gap, we examine the effect of perceived integrity in leadership on both subjective firm performance and objective employee productivity. Applying dynamic capabilities theory, we propose that perceived integrity in leadership may not only directly affect the outcome variables but also moderate the effect of the firm’s multiple-strategy implementation on outcome variables. We test the hypotheses using multiple informants from a transitional economy with an ineffective legal and incomplete institutional environment, which could seriously challenge the leader’s commitment to integrity. As hypothesized, perceived integrity is associated with manager’s perception of firm performance directly and objective employee productivity through its moderating role in the firm’s implementation process of dual strategies. The results illustrate that perceived integrity in leadership plays as an important driver for employee productivity in dual-strategy and non-strategy firms. We provide detailed discussions about the integrity challenge and call for additional future research on this topic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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