...Nguyen Khanh Hai Tran Purpose This study examines the relationships among ethical leadership (EL), performance pressure (PP) and unethical selling behavior (USB), with moral justification (MJ) serving as the mediating mechanism. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 411...

...Jiyu Li; Zhenyuan Wang; Fei Kang Purpose Grounded in uncertainty management theory, this research explores the mechanisms through which ethical leadership influences newcomer adjustment. We propose that ethical leadership enhances newcomer adjustment by fostering their perceptions of interpersonal...

...). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ethical leadership Sustainability Workplace environment Gender Small and medium-sized enterprise Saudi Arabia The current study makes several valuable contributions and is novel...

... the mediating role of psychological green climate in this relationship and explores the extent to which ethical leadership moderates this mediation effect. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey design was employed, collecting data from 577 employees in the service sector industry from Jammu...

...Chenjing Gan; Chi-Ying Cheng; Yandong Chai; Linbo Yang Purpose This study seeks to apply a dual-processing model to understand how ethical leadership prohibits employee unethical behavior through both employee deontic justice and distributive justice. Design/methodology/approach A survey...

..., this study provides evidence for interlinkage between leadership, CSR and beneficial outcomes such as OCB, through the integration of ethical leadership behaviors. According to the CSR need based framework (Vlachos et al., 2017), CSR authenticity has the potential to address employees...

... of this paper is to examine the effect of ethical leadership on followers’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and turnover intention and to examine the mediating role of intrinsic motivation in the relationships. The study employed a quantitative research method with a sample of 351 supervisor...

...Israr Ahmad; Yongqiang Gao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between ethical leadership and employee work engagement as well as the moderating effect of power distance orientation. Design/methodology/approach...

...Qi Yang; Hua Wei Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of ethical leadership on employee task performance, specifically the mechanisms through which ethical leadership impacts employee task performance and the moderating role of employee proactive personality. Social identity...

... system (Vlachos et al., 2014). Drawing from the above theorizing, researchers have validated this trickle-down effect in different research contexts. For instance, Mayer et al. (2009) demonstrated that group leaders’ ethical leadership mediated the effect of top mangers’ ethical...

... employee CO is a tricky one. It has been stated that employee CO is a stable work value or disposition that is consistent over time, and therefore, difficult to manage. However, one factor that might be an important driver of employee CO is the retailers’ ethical leadership behaviour. Accordingly...