• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.607-622
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• 2018

In this study, we investigated path that influence task performance through mediation of leader identification, regulatory focus (promotion focus and prevention focus). The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, ethical leadership has a positive effect on leader identification. Second, leader identification has played a crucial role in the relationship between ethical leadership and regulatory focus, and regulatory focus also have an important mediating effect on the relationship between leader identification and task performance. These results show that leader identification, regulatory focus play as an important mediator in relationship between ethical leadership and task performance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.730-744
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• 2016

This study attempt to test not only the impact of leadership(second-level supervisor's ethical leadership, immediate supervisor's transformational leadership) on followers' proactive behavior, but also the effect second-level supervisor's ethical leadership on leader's transformational leadership(i.e. TL). In particular, immediate supervisor's TL is explored as a mediating variable in the relationship between second-level supervisor's ethical leadership and followers' proactive behavior. The summary of the hierarchical regression analyses results was as follows: First, the paper showed that second-level supervisor's moral behavior was positively related to immediate supervisor's TL. But behavioral integrity and consistency across contexts was not found to play a unique role in predicting immediate supervisor's TL. Second, second-level supervisor's moral behavior was a positive impact on employee' taking charge behavior and helping behavior. and behavioral integrity was a positive impact on employee' taking charge behavior. But consistency across contexts was not found to play a unique role in predicting proactive behavior. Third, immediate supervisor's TL was a positive impact on employee' taking charge behavior and helping behavior. Finally, the effects of second-level supervisor's moral behavior on employee' proactive behavior were mediated by immediate supervisor's TL. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings as well as directions for future research are provided.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.441-474
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• 2011

This purpose of this study is to examine the relationships of ethical leader and ethics management system with employees's organizational citizenship behavior and the mechanism underlying these relationships. A questionnaire survey was conducted involving 1,035 full-time employees from large and medium industries in Daegu and Gyeong-buk provinces. Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that both of ethical leader and ethics management system were positively related with employees's organizational citizenship behavior. As expected, these relationships were mediated by organization-oriented ethical climate and social responsibility-oriented ethical climate respectively. The findings of this study are as followings: First, employees tend to show their pro-social behavior when they perceive their leaders act ethically and ethics management is well institutionalized. Second, building up the organization-oriented ethical climate and social responsibility-oriented ethical climate can be a powerful strategy to enhance employees's organizational citizenship behavior.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.9-18
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• 2022

Organizational performance is directly associated with leaders' behavior and the importance of various leadership types are continuously emphasized. Various of leadership types are possessed of different roles and influences. Nowadays, Chinese organizations continue to reinforce social responsibility and demand ethical elements for continuous development of organization and performance improvement. It shows that the importance of ethical leadership is emphasized among Chinese organizations. Based on this phenomenon, this research focused on identifying the role of ethical leadership and verifying the level of performance. According to the current situation that requires innovation in relation to performance, we focused on the employees' innovative behavior. Furthermore, we also verified serial multiple mediating effects of trust in leader and voice behavior on the relationship between ethical leadership and innovative behavior. This research focused on 336 employees in Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises to conducted a survey and the data were used in empirical analysis. The results showed ethical leadership had a positive influence on innovative behavior. In additon, the serial multiple mediating effects of trust in leader and voice behavior were verified. Overall, this research focused on exploring performance that can be achieved through ethical leadership and finding the ways to improve performance. Finally, the future research related to ethical leadership and performance was presented.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.83-98
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• 2016

This study attempted to test not only the influence of transformational leadership(TFL) on employees' unethical pro-organizational behavior(UPB), but also the mediating effect of organizational identification(OID) between TFL and employees' UPB. This study employed two research methods: literature review and empirical testing of the developed hypotheses. Data were collected through online questionnaire instruments from 229 employees working at companies in Korea. To test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling was employed. The model is shown as adequately fitting to the data. The results showed that there was not a positive and statistically significant relationship between TFL and employees' UPB, and OID played as a mediator in the relationship between TFL and employees' UPB. These findings provide a meaningful implication that the positive impact of TFL is linked to employees' UPB through OID.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.487-510
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Ethical Leadership on job engagement, organizational commitment and unethical pro-organizational behavior and to analyze the dual mediation effect of job engagement and organizational commitment. We used 565 questionnaires collected by members in domestic companies. The result of the analyses are as follows: First, Ethical Leadership has no positive effect on unethical pro-organizational behavior. Second, in the relationship between Ethical Leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior, job engagement does not play a mediating role, but organizational commitment plays a mediating role. Third, in the relationship between Ethical Leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior, job engagement and organizational commitment play a dual mediating role. The theoretical implication is that this study once again confirmed the behavior patterns such as cognition, emotion, attitude and behavior of members in the organization. In addition, this study can contribute to theoretical expansion by explaining that these behavior patterns are identified by social exchange theory. The practical implication is that this study confirmed that members in the actual management field are willing to perform unethical pro-organizational behavior in order to achieve the organization's goal efficiently and effectively. Therefore, it is suggested that active efforts should be made to recognize these negative influences and possibilities at the organization level and to create a clean and fair organizational culture and environment that everyone can recognize at the social level.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.548-559
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• 2019

Today, companies are enhancing their management transparency by implementing a variety of methods such as adopting a Code of Business Ethics to achieve sustainable management that enables long-term, stable development in a rapidly changing business environment. Management's ethical leadership is the core competence of human capital to secure competitive advantage in any enterprise. This study examined the effect of ethical leadership on employees' turnover intention and the mediating effect of empowerment in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' turnover intention. The study data were collected from a survey of 304 employees of Seoul and Gyeonggi-based companies from March 6 to March 27, 2019. SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0 were used for data analysis. From the analysis results, first, the leader's ethical leadership has a statistically significant impact on empowerment. Second, the management's ethical leadership has a significant negative influence on employees' turnover intention. Third, empowerment has a negative effect on employees' turnover intention. Fourth, empowerment has a mediating effect on the relationship between the management's ethical leadership and employees' turnover intention.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.71-81
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on employees' behaviors (deviant behavior and personal initiative) and to explore the moderating roles of self-efficacy and trust in leader in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' behaviors. This study developed four hypotheses and tested them using regression and hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that the negative relationship between ethical leadership and deviant behavior and the positive relationship between ethical leadership and personal initiative were statistically supported. And this study found that self-efficacy and trust in leader played moderating roles in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' behaviors. Based on the findings of the study, this study presented managerial implications and suggestions for future studies.

• Intergrated Energy Industry
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• s.3
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• pp.49-51
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• 2006

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.269-276
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• 2020

Recently some researchers have challenged the truism by arguing that ethical leadership evokes followers' engagement in unethical behavior when that is benefit for organization(unethical pro-organizational behavior, called UPB). In this paper, I propose the relationships among the ethical leadership, affective commitment, and UPB based on social exchange theory and social identity theory. Using survey data from 10 companies 90 employees, the regressing analysis results indicate that there is positive and significant direct relationship between ethical leadership and UPB, and affective commitment paly as a partial mediator role among ethical leadership and UPB. Some implications, future research directions, and study limitations were discussed.