Ethical Leaders and Their Followers: The Transmission of Moral Identity and Moral Attentiveness

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An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality (2019, methodology): “…an individual’s moral identity, while somewhat stable, may develop across adolescence (Jennings et al. 2015; Krettenauer and Hertz 2015) and change as a result of environmental stimuli such as being exposed to an ethical leader (Lord and Brown 2004; Shao et al. 2008; Zhu 2008; Zhu et al. 2016).”
Ethical Leadership and Internal Whistleblowing: A Mediated Moderation Model (2017, background): “First, an ethical leader can act as a role model to influence subordinates (Zhu et al. 2016); they are thought of as trustful, responsible, and likely to speak out against inappropriate behavior to improve organizational effectiveness (Brown et al.”
Not All Followers Socially Learn from Ethical Leaders: The Roles of Followers’ Moral Identity and Leader Identification in the Ethical Leadership Process (2019, background): “Interestingly, research (Zhu et al. 2016) shows that ethical leaders tend to have high levels of moral identity themselves, based on Aquino and Reed’s (2002) operationalization of moral identity used in the current study (i.”