Leaders, Values, and Organizational Climate: Examining Leadership Strategies for Establishing an Organizational Climate Regarding Ethics

By Michael W. Grojean, Christian J Resick, Marcus W. Dickson, D. B. Smith. 2004

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Mediating Effect of Ethical Climate on the Relationship Between Paternalistic Leadership and Team Identification: A Team-Level Analysis in the Chinese Context (2014, positive): “Leadership, among other factors, was critical in the development of ethical climate (Grojean et al. 2004).”
The Effect of Ethical Leadership Behavior on Ethical Climate, Turnover Intention, and Affective Commitment (2014, positive): “The role of managers and their ethical behavior play a critical role in providing a moral framework for organizational members (Grojean et al. 2004; Mendonca 2001) and in building the collective character of the organization (Moore 2005; Wright and Goodstein 2007).”
Examining the Impact of Servant Leadership on Salesperson’s Turnover Intention (2009, background): “As Grojean et al. (2004) assert, a strong ethical climate occurs when managers “walkthe-walk” and hold themselves to the highest ethical values and behaviors.”
When Leadership Goes Unnoticed: The Moderating Role of Follower Self-Esteem on the Relationship Between Ethical Leadership and Follower Behavior (2011, background): “One of the primary questions arising from the seemingly endless parade of ethical lapses is: where have all of the leaders gone? Within organizations, leaders at multiple levels play an important role in developing and sustaining ethical cultures and ethical conduct (Grojean et al., 2004).”
Ethical leadership, organizational identification and employee voice: examining moderated mediation process in the Chinese insurance industry (2014, background): “Although Grojean et al. (2004) declare that leaders at multiple levels of management play an important role in developing and sustaining ethical organizational cultures and ethical conduct among employees, the question of how the processes effect remains an important area of investigation.”
Leveraging the employee voice: a multi-level social learning perspective of ethical leadership (2019, background): “Such a leader is also less likely to be accepted as a role model to be followed (Grojean et al., 2004).”
Establishing Organizational Ethical Climates: How Do Managerial Practices Work? (2010, result): “However, it is surprising to note that, even though empirical research has addressed the roles of leaders (e.g., Dickson et al., 2001; Grojean et al., 2004; Wimbush and Shepard, 1994) and organizational structure (e.g., Jin et al., 2007; Verbeke et al., 1996) in influencing ethical climates, little…”
Authentic Leadership and Behavioral Integrity as Drivers of Follower Commitment and Performance (2011, background): “The combination of direct and sincere communication of values and follow-up on promises and behavioral consequences of these value-statements will lead the follower to identify with the leader and the values he or she, as the primary face of the organization (Grojean et al. 2004), stands for.”
Ethical and empowering leadership and leader effectiveness (2013, background): “Another study by Khuntia and Suar (2004) showed a positive linkage between ethical leadership and affective commitment, but this study confounded ethical leader behaviors with empowering and supportive leader behaviors.”
Examining the Link Between Ethical Leadership and Employee Misconduct: The Mediating Role of Ethical Climate (2010, background): “In an effort to reduce the amount of unethical behavior in organizations, scholars are increasingly interested in the role of leadership (Brown and Treviño, 2006; Davis and Rothstein, 2006; Grojean et al., 2004; Simons et al., 2007; Walumbwa et al., 2008).”
Discovering the Millennials’ Personal Values Orientation: A Comparison to Two Managerial Populations (2015, neutral): “When applied to business ethics, researchers found that certain values create an ethical orientation that either promotes ethical behavior or, conversely, leads to unethical behavior (Argandona 2003; Grojean et al. 2004).”