Creating an ethical organizational environment: The relationship between ethical leadership, ethical organizational climate, and unethical behavior.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kuenzi, Maribeth, ; Mayer, David M.; Greenbaum, Rebecca L.
- Source
- Personnel Psychology; Spring2020, Vol. 73 Issue 1, p43-71, 29p, 6 Charts, 1 Graph
- Subject
- Institutional environment
Group identity
Behavior
Leadership
- Language
- ISSN
- 00315826
The purpose of this research is to provide a richer lens on the ethical organizational environment by examining the relationship between ethical leadership and unit‐level unethical behavior through ethical organizational climate (EOC), with collective moral identity as a boundary condition. In testing our theoretical model, we first develop and validate a measure of EOC to address concerns with existing measures of ethical climate. Second, we examine the role of collective moral identity as a moderator of the relationship between EOC and unit unethical behavior. We discuss implications regarding the importance of developing a more comprehensive conceptualization of EOC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]