Interest in organizations first appeared between World War I and World War II, with the American studies led by Mayo. Since then, interest has grown and spread to most industrialized countries. In the sixties, in Anglo-Saxon countries and especially in the United States where research was first...

As the few existing empirical studies on leaders ethics are based on a functionalist perspective - in which leaders ethics rely on conformity with certain types of behavior - not taking into account the context, the purpose of this research is to chose an interpretative approach, focusing on the...