What is the "ethics advantage"? Why is it a competitive advantage - and not just a moral obligation - to become an ethical organization? The truth is this: companies that establish ethical climates in the workplace reflect it in their strategy, service, culture and bottom line. Both global enterprises and small businesses leverage the ethics advantage with talent that is more engaged, willing to communicate openly with senior leadership about continuous improvement, and champion customer loyalty. This webcast focuses on the advantages of creating ethical climates in the work environment. This is the first in a series of webcasts detailing how leaders can model and inspire business ethics, as well as what companies can do to gain the ethics advantage in their talent and leadership development.
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Leaders should be a key source of ethical guidance for employees. Yet, little empirical research focuses on an ethical dimension of leadership. We propose social learning theory as a theoretical basis for understanding ethical leadership and offer a constitutive definition of the ethical leadership construct. In seven interlocking studies, we investigate the viability and importance of this construct. We develop and test a new instrument to measure ethical leadership, examine the proposed connections of ethical leadership with other constructs in a nomological network, and demonstrate its predictive validity for important employee outcomes. Specifically, ethical leadership is related to consideration behavior, honesty, trust in the leader, interactional fairness, socialized charismatic leadership (as measured by the idealized influence dimension of transformational leadership), and abusive supervision, but is not subsumed by any of these. Finally, ethical leadership predicts outcomes such as perceived effectiveness of leaders, followers’ job satisfaction and dedication, and their willingness to report problems to management.
