scholarly journals Will You Forgive Your Supervisor’s Wrongdoings? The Moral Licensing Effect of Ethical Leader Behaviors

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Wang ◽  
Darius K.-S. Chan
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 1485-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Won Jun Kwak ◽  
Ji Hyun Shim

We investigated how employees respond to Machiavellian supervisors exerting ethical leadership. Participants were 252 matched supervisor–employee dyads, and we administered measures of supervisor ethical leadership, employee voice, employee power distance orientation, and supervisor Machiavellianism. Results revealed that Machiavellian supervisors' ethical leader behaviors were perceived to be genuine by subordinate employees, and that ethical leadership promoted supervisors' extrarole voice behaviors. Further, the effects of Machiavellian supervisors' ethical leader behaviors on employee voice were intensified in the particular organizational context of higher, versus lower, employee power distance orientation. Given the major finding that ethical leader behaviors demonstrated by Machiavellian supervisors were effective whether or not they were genuine, ethical leadership training and development are suggested to help promote desirable employee work behaviors, including voice.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan S. Chiaburu ◽  
Ismael Diaz ◽  
Virginia E. Pitts

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathleen Swody ◽  
Steven Rumery ◽  
Stephen Lambert

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Rupprecht ◽  
Jessica S. Waldrop ◽  
Matthew J. Grawitch

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