The Consequences of Ethical Leadership in Terms of Employees and Organizations: A Conceptual Examination

Year 2019, Volume: 11 Issue: 18, 2506 - 2524, 30.06.2019

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https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.553130

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Abstract

Today, due to the ethical scandals, the ethical issue and the ethical
leadership concept in businesses have started to gain more importance for
enterprises. However, the concept and characteristics of ethical leadership are
not fully defined in the literature. In addition, there was some confusion in
the literature on the structure of the concept in question. The aim of this
study is to provide a better understanding of the structure of the ethical
leadership concept and to analyze the results of ethical leadership for the
organization and employees. In this contexte, national and international
literature was first reviewed and by explaining the concept of ethical
leadership the confusions of concept is tried to be resolved. Then, the
relations of ethical leadership with other concepts are discussed. Therefore, a
theoretical model was proposed to synthesize the results of ethical leadership.
According to this model, ethical leadership affects employees' job
satisfaction, well-being, organizational justice perception, organizational
citizenship behavior and organizational commitment directly and positively. At
the end of the study, research constraints and suggestions for future studies
are included. This research reveals the importance of ethical leadership for
both the organization and the employees.

Keywords

Ethical leadership, Job satisfaction, Well-being, Organizational justice, Organizational commitment

Etik Liderliğin Çalışanlar ve Örgütler Açısından Sonuçları: Kavramsal Bir İnceleme

Abstract

Günümüzde
yaşanan etik skandallar nedeniyle işletmelerde etik konusu ve buna bağlı olarak
etik liderlik kavramı daha çok önem kazanmaya başlamıştır. Bununla birlikte
yazında etik liderlik kavramı ve özellikleri tam olarak tanımlanmamıştır.
Ayrıca, söz konusu kavramın yapısı üzerine yazında bazı karışıklıklar olduğu tespit
edilmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı etik liderlik kavramının yapısının daha iyi
anlaşılmasını sağlamak ve etik liderliğin örgüt ve çalışanlar açısından
sonuçlarını analiz etmektir. Bu doğrultuda öncelikle ulusal ve uluslararası
yazın taranmış ve etik liderlik kavramı açıklanarak kavram karışıklıkları
giderilmeye çalışılmıştır. Daha sonra etik liderliğin etki ettiği diğer
kavramlarla olan ilişkileri ele alınmıştır. Çalışmanın sonunda etik liderliğin
sonuçlarının sentezlendiği kuramsal bir model önerisi yapılmıştır. Bu modele
göre etik liderlik davranışları, çalışanların iş tatminini, iyi oluşunu,
örgütsel adalet algısını, örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışlarını ve örgütsel
bağlılığını doğrudan, olumlu yönde etkilemektedir. Çalışma sonunda araştırma
kısıtlarına ve gelecek çalışmalara önerilere yer verilmiştir. Bu araştırma etik
liderliğin hem örgüt hem de çalışanlar için önemini ortaya koymaktadır.

Keywords

Etik liderlik, İş tatmini, İyi oluş, Örgütsel adalet, Örgütsel bağlılık

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