Promoting ethical follower behaviour through leadership of ethics: The development of the ethical leadership inventory (ELI)

Autor: H. Spangenberg, C. C. Theron
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 36, Iss 2, Pp 1-18 (2005)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2078-5585
2078-5976
DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v36i2.623
Popis: The Centre of Leadership Studies developed a model that defines and describes leadership behaviour required for creating an ethical and high performing organisation. Purposefully building an ethical organisational environment is a prerequisite for ethical organisational behaviour. To be an ethical high performance leader, a person must be both an effective leader and a leader of ethics. The purpose of this study is to develop a 360° instrument that can be used to assess the quality of ethical leadership of middle, senior and executive managers in public, private and not-for-profit organisations. The results reported here provide reasonable support for the use of the ELI. The possibility of causal influences existing amongst specific first-order leadership dimensions, however, needs to be investigated.
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