Do Role Models Matter? An Investigation of Role Modeling as an Antecedent of Perceived Ethical Leadership

By Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño. 2014

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Demography

1. Zhen Wang
2. Lu Xing
3. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
4. S. Hannah
5. H. Xu
6. Anouk Decuypere
7. M. Kaptein
8. Eman Aly Abed El-Motalib

In Information Systems and Management

1. Zhen Wang
2. Lu Xing
3. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
4. S. Hannah
5. H. Xu
6. Anouk Decuypere
7. M. Kaptein
8. Lutz Preuss

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Anouk Decuypere
2. Zhen Wang
3. Lu Xing
4. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
5. S. Hannah
6. H. Xu
7. M. Kaptein
8. Arnold B. Bakker

Citations in the corpus

• Leadership and work engagement: Exploring explanatory mechanisms (2020, background): “, 1999) and ethical leadership have been described in terms of (ethical) role models (Brown and Treviño, 2014).”
• The Moral Entrepreneur: A New Component of Ethical Leadership (2019, background): “Studies of the antecedents of ethical leadership, at both the situational and personal levels, have found that leaders who have had ethical role models are more likely to become ethical leaders (Brown and Treviño 2014).”
• Not All Followers Socially Learn from Ethical Leaders: The Roles of Followers’ Moral Identity and Leader Identification in the Ethical Leadership Process (2019, background): “Taken together, these results testing Hypothesis 1 highlight the important role of ethical role model perception and its role in the social learning effects of ethical leadership (Brown and Treviño 2014).”