• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.285-294
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• 2021

Fraud cases that are committed by top management or people who have high positions or organization can be called character assassination crimes. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and the effect of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior. This study uses quantitative methods with SEM analysis tools partial least square (PLS) with the population of this study being all civil servants in the Kediri city government with 125 organizational members. This research instrument uses a questionnaire divided into three main parts: (1) leadership ethics as measured by 6 indicators and 12 items. (2) Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) as measured by 7 dimensions and 14 items (3) job satisfaction as measured by 4 indicators and 8 items. Based on the results of the discussion of data analysis that has been carried out through data processing and proof of hypotheses, it can be concluded that an increase in ethical leadership will have an impact on increasing organizational citizenship behavior, an increase in ethical leadership variables will affect job satisfaction and that job satisfaction has no significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.155-171
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• 2016

Background: In this study, state-owned medical institutes, industrial accident hospitals, veteran hospitals, and private medical clinics including 16 university medical institutes in the Seoul metropolitan area were selected to examine the causality of ethical management, positive psychological capital, and organizational effectiveness. Methods: The study analyzed 1,056 valid questionnaires to which a total of 1,325 nurses, medical technicians, doctors, and administrative staff in 34 healthcare organizations answered over two months from June to August 2015. The study also utilized a 'structural equation model,' and a 'hierarchical linear model' to conduct the analysis. Results: It was first found that ethical leadership, ethical management systems, and organizational ethics values, which are the three factors of ethical management, had significant influence on organizational commitment, and behavior. These are the three factors of employee organizational effectiveness. Second, ethical management, ethical leadership, ethical management systems, and organizational ethics values had significant influence on positive psychological capital. Third, positive psychological capital had significant influence on organizational commitment, turnover intention, and organizational citizenship behavior. Positive psychological capital presented an indirect effect on the relationship between the ethical management and organizational effectiveness of employees. The effect of positive psychological capital consisting of self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism was confirmed in the healthcare organizations. Fourth, in relations among ethical management variables, ethical leadership showed a significant impact on ethical management systems, which had significant impacts on organizational ethics values, which had significant impacts on ethical leadership.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.433-441
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• 2022

This study not only examines the intermediating process of the association between ethical leadership and safety behavior, but also tries to find a factor which moderates the positive influence of ethical leadership. To achieve it, this paper tried to identify the mediating effect of employee's psychological safety between ethical leadership and safety behavior, as well as the moderating influence of moral identity in the ethical leadership-psychological safety link. By utilizing 3-wave survey data from 227 employees in Korean companies with conducting structural equation modeling(SEM), this paper found that ethical leadership had a positive influence on safety behavior through mediating effect of psychological safety. In addition, employee's moral identity positively moderated the positive impact of ethical leadership on psychological safety.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.163-168
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• 2015

Empirical studies of superior's ethical leadership on organizational effectiveness of organization member have been done in various fields. However, it is difficult to find the previous research on civil servant in public sector. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyse causal relationship of ethical leadership and organizational effectiveness and to suggest theoretical and political implication for enhancing the level of civil servant's organizational citizenship behavior. As the result of analysing the causal relationship of superior's ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, the factor of organizational effectiveness as the public attitude, this study shows that normative behavior, communication, reinforcement, and right decision-making have significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Based on these results, this study suggested theoretical and political implication and the limitations of study.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.35-54
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• 2014

This study recognizes the limitation of previous literature regarding ethical leadership, organizational citizenship behavior, and workplace spirituality and develops the research model and hypothetical relationships. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship and workplace spirituality and test the mediation effect of workplace spirituality on the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. The suggested hypothetical relationships were tested with primary data from a sample 367 employees of social enterprises. The main findings of this study are as follows: First, it is found that transparency, contribution, integrity and which are composed factors of ethical leadership have positive influence on organizational citizenship behavior. Second, transparency, contribution, integrity and which are composed factors of ethical leadership have positive influence on workplace spirituality. Third, workplace spirituality have positive influence on organizational citizenship behavior. Fourth, workplace spirituality mediated the relationship of ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. Thus, the hypothesis on the mediating role of workplace spirituality was supported. This study contributes to the understanding of organizational citizenship behavior research by developing an theoretical model, incorporating the role of ethical leadership and workplace spirituality. In conclusion, this study suggests that in the organization developing organizational citizenship behavior, ethical leadership of leader and improving workplace spirituality of employees need to be considered to adopt.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.229-239
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• 2021

This study examined the influence of ethical leadership on employee job satisfaction and the mediating role of employee engagement in the relationship between these two variables. In this study, employee engagement was divided into job engagement and organization engagement. Data were collected from 183 employees working for Korean companies. The results of this study are as follows. First, it was found that ethical leadership was positively related to both job engagement and organization engagement. Second, ethical leadership was also positively related to job satisfaction of employees. Third, job engagement and organization engagement were found to partially mediate the relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction respectively. The results of this study suggest a theoretical contribution in that it expanded existing studies on the relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction. This study is significant in that it revealed a mechanism that ethical leadership directly affects job satisfaction in the relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction, but indirectly positively affects employee engagement variables such as job engagement and organization engagement. The results of this study also suggest practical implications that CEOs should strive to help organizational managers demonstrate ethical leadership. In addition, the results of this study suggest practical implications that managers and human resource development experts need to seek ways to increase the level of engagement of employees in the organization. Finally, this study presented limitations to be revised and supplemented in future studies and future research directions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.447-454
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• 2013

This research is an empirical study to analyze the relationship among the ethical leadership of supervisor, CSR attitude of subordinate, and supervisor's performance evaluated by subordinate. A survey was conducted for the employees of a large manufacturing company in Korea, and 196 questionnaires were analyzed. Results of multiple regression analyses showed that the relationship between the ethical leadership of supervisor and the CSR attitude of subordinate was positively significant. That is, the supervisor's ethical leadership leads the subordinate's positive CSR attitude. And, supervisor's performance evaluated by subordinate positively moderated the relationship between ethical leadership and CSR attitude. That is, when subordinates assesses the supervisor's performance as high, the positive relationship between supervisor's ethical leadership and subordinate's CSR attitude becomes relatively stronger. Theoretical and managerial implications of these empirical results were discussed.

• 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.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.109-119
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• 2014

The two main purposes of this study were to investigate the influence of ethical leadership on employees' behaviors in terms of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and in role behavior and to explore the mediating role of psychological ownership in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' behaviors (OCB and in role behavior). To achieve these two research purpose of this study, this study employed two research methods: literature review and empirical testing of the developed hypotheses. The results showed that there was a positive and statistically significant relationship between ethical leadership and employees' behaviors (OCB and in role behavior), and psychological ownership played as a moderator in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' behaviors. Based on the findings, this study discussed practical implications and suggested future research directions.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.11-20
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• 2022

The purpose of the study is as follows. This is to understand the effect of ethical leadership of small and medium businesses employers on job satisfaction and to understand the mediating effect of organizational fairness in their relationship. The study conducted an online survey and analyzed 508 employees of small and medium-sized enterprises in Seoul and northern Gyeonggi. The research results are as follows. First, the higher the ethical leadership of small and medium businesses employers, the higher the job satisfaction. Second, the higher the ethical leadership of small and medium businesses employers, the higher the organizational fairness. Finally, the partial mediating effect of organizational fairness was confirmed in the effect of ethical leadership of small and medium businesses employers on job satisfaction. Therefore, there is a need for a plan to strengthen the ethical leadership capabilities of small and medium businesses employers to improve job satisfaction and organizational fairness of SME employees.