Title
The relationship between ethical leadership and core job characteristics
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
DOI Link
Language
English
First Page
259
Last Page
278
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0894-3796
Recommended Citation
"The relationship between ethical leadership and core job characteristics" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 641.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/641
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