There is a widespread acceptance of the link between religiosity and ethics although it is unclear how this influence occurs exactly. Building on social learning and social exchange theory, O'Keefe et. al. (2017) proposed that ethical leadership interacts with co-worker ethicality to predict...

Ethical leadership is expected to communicate, promote, and reinforce the ethical behaviors of the followers. Ethical leadership has not fully considered the nature of the leader-follower exchange, and, in addition, few studies have considered the impact of follower individual differences in...

Firms in a highly competitive environment, to improve productivity, put pressure on employees making them feel insecure about their job, prompting them to behave unethically to protect their jobs. Here employees’ ethicality crucially depends upon their personality traits, moral values, and...

Ethical leadership is about frontrunners that are professed as ethical by their supporters. Managers are considered as ethical leaders, primarily by being and acting ethically, that is, by accomplishing the role of ‘moral person’; furthermore, by endorsing the ethical behavior of others...

This study aims to determine that if an individual’s perceptions and actions could be altered when exposed to subtle contextual cues and does that affect their ethicality and concern for stakeholders. In business, the role of morality and intuitions have been increasingly inferred in decision...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to explore why some people are more religious. More importantly, is it due to external factors like culture and values, or some innate factors like humanism is influencing it. We also tried to explain how innate values like humanism make people more religious....

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 exceeding number of studies proposes that leadership skills, ability, knowledge, and outcomes can be enhanced by leader character strengths. In this study, we explained how character strengths affect self, leader, and work-related outcomes. For this, we proposed a theoretical framework...

Ethical leadership (EL) seems to be effective in reducing workplace deviance, questions remain as to whether its benefits are consistent across all situations. Specifically, whether its effectiveness remained in an already ethical environment. In this investigation, we explore two important...

Moral recognition, defined as an individual’s interpretation of a situation as a moral dilemma. However, individuals will not constantly interpret situations as a moral dilemma in the same way with the same intensity under all conditions. literature suggests that when two conditions of moral...