Strategic leadership of ethical behavior in business

By Terry Thomas, J. Schermerhorn, J. Dienhart. 2004

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management

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Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018 (2018, background): “Although the list was dominated by studies of sustainable leadership in business settings [18,43,47,81], the highly-cited documents also include examinations of sustainable leadership in education organizations [48,82,87,88].”
Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: a GLOBE study of 15 countries (2006, background): “Leader integrity is perhaps associated with other, more tangible types of organizational outcome, such as the reduction of business costs (Thomas et al., 2004).”
How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees’ Job Performance: The Mediating Roles of Goal Congruence and Psychological Capital (2014, background): “Ethical leadership is considered important for organizations because it helps reduce business costs (Thomas et al. 2004).”
Reviewing Leadership Styles: Overlaps and the Need for a New ‘Full‐Range’ Theory (2017, unknown): “At the organizational level, ethical leadership is argued to reduce business costs (Thomas et al. 2004).”
The Development and Validation of a New Machiavellianism Scale (2009, unknown): “In the wake of major corporate scandals at such organizations as Enron, MCI WorldCom, Adelphia Communications, and Halliburton, organizational scholars have heavily emphasized the importance of ethical management (Knights & O'Leary, 2006; London, 1999; Schroeder, 2002; Thomas et al., 2004; Trevifio ”
Opportunities and Problems of Standardized Ethics Initiatives – a Stakeholder Theory Perspective (2008, background): “Thus, standardized ethics initiatives are appealing since they point managers’ attention to chronically undervalued costs of ethical failure such as employee turnover or damaged employee morale (Thomas et al., 2004, p. 58; also Goyder and Desmond, 2000; Zadek, 2004).”
Ethical leadership, moral equity judgments, and discretionary workplace behavior (2013, result): “First, the findings indicate that ethical leaders play an integral role in the beliefs that employees form about appropriate conduct in the workplace, which provides empirical evidence supporting propositions from prior research (e.g. Brown and Treviño, 2006; Thomas et al., 2004).”
The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices and Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Ethical Climates: An Employee Perspective (2013, background): “Ethical-oriented practices can therefore be both values-oriented, when encouraging a shared commitment to responsible self-managed conduct; and compliance-oriented, when imposing rules or standards of conduct (Thomas et al. 1994, Paine 1994; Weaver et al. 1999; Collier and Esteban 2007).”
The Nexus of Ethical Leadership, Job Performance, and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2018, background): “Ethical leadership is an imperative element for organizations because it helps organizations to decrease business expenditures through fair and moral treatment of its employees as well as other resources [1].”
Relationship Between Ethical Leadership, Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction at Hotel Organizations (2015, unknown): “To improve ethical behaviors continuously and to work more ethically each day, managers need to willing (Thomas et al., 2004).”