Events involving ethical scandals in companies such as AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Lehman Brothers. Researchers point at dysfunctional ethical environments as one of the main reasons for illegal or unethical behavior, However, past research leaves several gaps in our understanding of...

Despite numerous researches on ethical leadership, literature still lacks the researches on boundary conditions that limit its effectiveness. Thus, the present study examines the relationship between ethical leadership (EL) and organizational deviance via first-order mediation of affective...

The lens through which followers experience the ethical dimension of leadership itself it is argued is likely distorted by a followers’ level in the hierarchy. In this regard, ethical leadership may be better conceptualized as an intermediary through which follower status contributes to these...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational virtuousness and job satisfaction with a mediating role of ethical climate. The study follows an explanatory research design. We hypothesized that increase in the perceived virtuousness in the presence of an improved...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed a robust body of research while there has been a lack of research focusing on its counterpart, Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI). This is particularly true in terms of how workers perceive these activities. Employees' perceptions of...

Purpose: The paper aims to explore the possibility that a positive organizational reputation brings both benefits and burdens to employees working for those organizations. We argue that although organizational reputation can cause employees to identify more strongly with the organization, it may...