Can Ethical Leadership Reduce Workplace Deviant Behavior?

An Analysis Based on Localization Scale

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10.2991/assehr.k.210407.077How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethical Leadership, Organizational Ethical Climate, Workplace Deviant Behavior, Organization Performance

Abstract

Workplace Deviant Behavior of employees is harmful to the interests of other members and the organization. In order to reduce such behavior, the study aims to explore the influence mechanism of ethical leadership on Workplace Deviant Behavior by introducing the organizational ethical climate as a mediator variable and examine the role of its each dimension. Based on the Chinese context, researchers revised the three scales of ethical leadership, organizational ethical climate and Workplace Deviant Behavior to form the localized analysis tools. A sample survey including 528 employees from different types of enterprises and subsequent empirical analysis was conducted according to these localized scales. The results indicate that: Ethical leadership can significantly inhibit the occurrence of Workplace Deviant Behavior; Two dimensions of ethical climate of self-interest and rules completely mediate the inhibitory effect of ethical leadership on the interpersonal deviance; However, between the ethical leadership and organizational deviance, all the three dimensions of the organizational ethical climate play a partly intermediary role.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yabin Bian
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/08
TI  - Can Ethical Leadership Reduce Workplace Deviant Behavior?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 391
EP  - 400
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.077
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.077
ID  - Bian2021
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