The relationship between ethical leadership and core job characteristics

    Authors

    R. F. Piccolo; R. Greenbaum; D. N. Den Hartog;R. Folger

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Organ. Behav.

    Keywords

    ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; WORK DESIGN; TRANSFORMATIONAL; LEADERSHIP; PERFORMANCE-APPRAISAL; ELABORATED MODEL; GENERAL-APPROACH; MEMBER EXCHANGE; TASK DESIGN; MOTIVATION; PERSPECTIVE; Business; Psychology, Applied; Management

    Abstract

    In the Current study, we draw oil the original job characteristics model (JCM) and on all elaborated model of work design to examine relationships between ethical leadership, task significance, job autonomy, effort, and job performance. We suggest that leaders with strong ethical commitments who regularly demonstrate ethically normative behavior can have an impact on the JCM elements of task significance and autonomy, thereby affecting an employee's motivation (willingness to exert effort), which in turn will be evidenced by indications of enhanced task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. We conducted a field study by surveying pairs of co-workers in a diverse set of organizations. Results provide support for a fully mediated model whereby task significance and effort fully mediate relationships between ethical leadership and subordinates' job performance. Implications for future research on job design are discussed. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Organizational Behavior

    Volume

    31

    Issue/Number

    2-3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    259

    Last Page

    278

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000274492900006

    ISSN

    0894-3796

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