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What Matters Most in Promoting Ethics: Manager’s? Altruism, Ethical Preferences, or Transformational Leadership?

This empirical study explores the effects of supervisor’s altruism, ethical preferences, and transformational leadership on subordinate’s ethical preferences. Data were collected from 70 pairs of supervisors and subordinates working in several organizations in India. Preference for unethical behavio...

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Autor principal: Venkat R. Krishnan; Shiva Krishnan AND Priyambad Pattanayak
Format: Journal Article
Publicat: Abhigyan 2014
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Sumari:This empirical study explores the effects of supervisor’s altruism, ethical preferences, and transformational leadership on subordinate’s ethical preferences. Data were collected from 70 pairs of supervisors and subordinates working in several organizations in India. Preference for unethical behavior was captured from both supervisors and subordinates by asking them to respond to five scenarios -- bribery; endangering the physical environment; lying; personal gain; and favoritism. Results show that supervisor’s ethical preference is the strongest predictor of subordinate’s ethical preference in the case of bribery, lying, personal gain, and favoritism. Supervisor’s altruism is the strongest predictor of subordinate’s ethical preference in the case of endangering the physical environment. Supervisor’s preference for bribery and subordinate’s preference for bribery are significantly positively correlated to each other when transformational leadership is high but not when it is low. In addition, supervisor’s preference for bribery fully mediates the relationship between supervisor’s altruism and subordinate’s preference for bribery.
Descripció física:Vol 32 No.1(April – June 2014)