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Does the Ethical Leadership of Supervisors Generate Internal Social Capital?

verfasst von: David Pastoriza, Miguel A. Ariño

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2013

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Ethics has recently gained prominence in debates surrounding social capital creation. Despite the significant theoretical progress in this field, it still lacks empirical research. The goal of this study is to empirically explore the ethical leadership of supervisors as an antecedent of the firm’s social capital. We build on social learning theory to argue that employees can learn standards of appropriate behavior by observing the behavior of role models. By displaying and enforcing ethical behavior, supervisors can facilitate the process through which employees learn to feel empathy toward others and establish profound affective relationships with them. Data were collected from 408 Spanish, French, and Portuguese part-time MBA students. Using structural equation modeling techniques, we show that the ethical leadership of supervisors exerts a significant influence on the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital.

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We assessed the fit of the partial models using three fit indexes: the goodness-of-fit index (GFI), the normed fit index (NFI), and the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA). The NFI assesses the correspondence between the observed and the hypothesized covariances. A GFI should be 0.90 or higher. The NFI is a comparison of a proposed model to the null model (in which no relationships among the variables are posited). Values greater than 0.80 are considered indicative of good fit. The RMSEA measure is based on the non-centrality parameter. Models whose RMSEA is 0.10 or more have poor fit. In addition to these three fit indexes, we used the Chi-squared test (χ ²) to assess the fit of the overall final model. The χ ² provides a measure of the inappropriateness of a model if the model is not truly representative of the observed data. A small (non-significant) Chi-squared indicates a good fit.

To reduce concerns about single-respondent bias, we used an alternative measure similar to ethical leadership: the integrity of supervisors. When we correlated the measure ethical leadership of supervisors with the integrity of supervisors, we got a correlation coefficient of 0.90 (p < 0.01), indicating that respondents are rating very similarly two alternative measures.

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Titel: Does the Ethical Leadership of Supervisors Generate Internal Social Capital?
verfasst von: David Pastoriza
Miguel A. Ariño
Publikationsdatum: 01.11.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1536-7

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