Understanding the dynamic nexus between ethical leadership and employees’ innovative performance: the intermediating mechanism of social capital

IF 1.9 Q2 ETHICS

Asian Journal of Business Ethics Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI:10.1007/s13520-022-00141-6

Irfan Ullah, Bilal Mirza, Raja Mazhar Hameed

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Abstract

Research suggests that ethical leadership influences employees’ behavior and organizational functioning. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of ethical leadership in the improvement of employees’ innovative performance. Specifically, this research developed and tested a framework about the intermediating mechanism of social capital in the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ innovative performance. The current study integrated assumptions of social learning and social exchange theories, which postulate that the leadership has a direct effect on the employees’ conduct, principally through role modeling and the reciprocal landscape. Data were collected through in-person administered questionnaire-based survey from 297 employees working in the manufacturing sectors of Pakistan. The conceptual model of our research was analyzed applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results exhibited that the ethical leadership plays an important role in fostering employees’ innovative performance. The present study also found that social capital plays an intermediating role between the ethical leadership and employees’ innovative performance relationship. The current study contributed to the leadership and innovation literature and provided insights in examining the ethical leadership-employees’ innovative performance relationship through the intermediating mechanism of social capital.

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理解伦理型领导与员工创新绩效的动态关系:社会资本的中介机制

研究表明，道德领导力会影响员工的行为和组织功能。因此，本研究的目的是调查道德领导力在提高员工创新绩效中的作用。具体而言，本研究开发并测试了一个关于社会资本在道德领导力与员工创新绩效关系中的中介机制的框架。当前的研究综合了社会学习和社会交流理论的假设，这些理论假设领导层主要通过角色建模和互惠景观对员工的行为有直接影响。数据是通过亲自管理的问卷调查从297名在巴基斯坦制造业工作的员工中收集的。应用结构方程建模（SEM）对我们研究的概念模型进行了分析。研究结果表明，道德领导力在培养员工创新绩效方面发挥着重要作用。本研究还发现，社会资本在道德领导力与员工创新绩效关系之间发挥着中介作用。本研究对领导力和创新文献做出了贡献，并通过社会资本的中介机制，为检验道德领导力员工的创新绩效关系提供了见解。

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Asian Journal of Business Ethics ETHICS-

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2.60

自引率

38.50%

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期刊介绍： The Asian Journal of Business Ethics (AJBE) publishes original articles from a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning ethical issues related to business in Asia, including East, Southeast and South-central Asia. Like its well-known sister publication Journal of Business Ethics, AJBE examines the moral dimensions of production, consumption, labour relations, and organizational behavior, while taking into account the unique societal and ethical perspectives of the Asian region. The term ''business'' is understood in a wide sense to include all systems involved in the exchange of goods and services, while ''ethics'' is understood as applying to all human action aimed at securing a good life. We believe that issues concerning corporate responsibility are within the scope of ethics broadly construed. Systems of production, consumption, marketing, advertising, social and economic accounting, labour relations, public relations and organizational behaviour will be analyzed from a moral or ethical point of view. The style and level of dialogue involve all who are interested in business ethics - the business community, universities, government agencies, non-government organizations and consumer groups.The AJBE viewpoint is especially relevant today, as global business initiatives bring eastern and western companies together in new and ever more complex patterns of cooperation and competition.