The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Employees Performance: A Systematic Review
The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of ethical leadership on employees’ performance within the business organization. Corporate leaders are expected to lead by example in fostering ethical behaviors and actions among their team members. Many
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University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Faculty of Business, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan 3 Amman Arab University, Amman, Jordan Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE [email protected] 2
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Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of ethical leadership on employees’ performance within the business organization. Corporate leaders are expected to lead by example in fostering ethical behaviors and actions among their team members. Many studies have been explored deeper into the efficacy of the top leaders on employees and their performance. Data captured from 30 articles indicated that ethical leadership has a positive effect on workers’ in-role job performance and all hypotheses were confirmed. These findings have significant implications for research and practice. Moreover, this research will focus on the effects of an ethical leadership approach on the performance of workers since ethical leadership is considered critical in enhancing the adopted business strategy in the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. Keywords: Ethical leadership Moral perspective
Employee performance Moral sensitivity
1 Introduction Ethical leadership plays a critical role in enhancing the productivity of employees within business organizations [1, 2]. In the wake of the ever-increasing competition, the management and leadership of business organizations need to foster effective examples as far as ethical behaviors are concerned [3]. Ethical leadership is multidimensional and involves the evaluation of the worker commitment, psychological well-being of the team members, job satisfaction [4–6]. Such factors are critical in determining the productivity of the team members in business settings. Ethical behaviors include important concepts such as transparency, fairness, integrity, and compassion as well as
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empathy, especially by the top leadership towards their team members or followers [7– 9]. The goal of this paper is to analyze other studies on the impact of ethical leadership on employees’ performance within business organizations. This existing systematic review includes the investigation of ethical leadership with regards to employees’ performance from the standpoint pf research questions, research methods, country distribution, and across their year of publication. Therefore, this review is planned to study the following research question to provide a comprehensive analysis of the collected data. The question is: • What is the impact of using ethical leadership on employee performance within business organizations?
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Major Issues and Gaps
Most studies agree that leadership is one of the major factors that has an indisputable influence on the performance of the team mem
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