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Ethical leadership and employee behaviours: an empirical study of mediating factors

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  • Muhammet Sait Dinc
  • Muzaffer Aydemir

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This paper examines the effects of ethical leadership on employee behaviour through the mediating role of ethical climate and employee attitudes. This study proposes that ethical leadership has an influence on organisational citizenship behaviour, specifically through ethical climate, job satisfaction and organisational commitment. The results based on a sample of 213 employees from four private universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina support the hypotheses. This study demonstrates that job satisfaction and organisational commitment, which are influenced by ethical leadership, are important mediating factors that affect employees' organisational citizenship behaviour. The ethical climate that is shaped by ethical leadership also has a mediating impact on employees' job satisfaction and organisational commitment, which in turn strengthen organisational citizenship behaviour at the private universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • Muhammet Sait Dinc & Muzaffer Aydemir, 2014. "Ethical leadership and employee behaviours: an empirical study of mediating factors," International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(3), pages 293-312.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbget:v:9:y:2014:i:3:p:293-312
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    1. Anna Lašáková & Anna Remišová & Ľubica Bajzíková, 2021. "Differences in Occurrence of Unethical Business Practices in a Post-Transitional Country in the CEE Region: The Case of Slovakia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-33, March.
    2. Wei Su & Juhee Hahn, 2021. "Improving Millennial Employees’ OCB: A Multilevel Mediated and Moderated Model of Ethical Leadership," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(15), pages 1-17, July.
    3. Enrico Rinaldi & Setyo Riyanto, 2021. "The effect of work motivation, work environment, and job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior and their impact on employees performance of RSU Menteng Mitra Afia during the Covid-19 pan," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 10(6), pages 101-110, September.

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