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Responsibility, ethics, and leadership: an Indian study

Authors: Damini Saini, Sunita Singh Sengupta

Published in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics | Issue 1-2/2016

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This paper signifies the inevitability of the responsible practices of leadership into the relation with the subordinates in the Indian organizations. The theme of this study revolves around the responsibility and ethical approach of the top management which directly or indirectly influence the job-related attitudinal behavior of employees. To analyze it empirically, a questionnaire is designed and 138 middle-level managers from four private sector telecom companies in India rated their superiors on 11 items of leadership scale. This study used internal consistency reliability, Pearson correlation, and exploratory factor analysis as statistical techniques. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two dimensions. The paper examines the impact of leadership of managers upon their subordinates in the context of enhancing job satisfaction, affective commitment, and knowledge performance. The results of the study are not completely substantiating empirically to the theory that ethical attitude of leaders enhance commitment and satisfaction of subordinates in Indian context.

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Title: Responsibility, ethics, and leadership: an Indian study
Authors: Damini Saini
Sunita Singh Sengupta
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 1-2/2016
Print ISSN: 2210-6723
Electronic ISSN: 2210-6731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13520-016-0058-2

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