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Ethical Leadership and Subordinate Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Organizational Politics and the Moderating Role of Political Skill

verfasst von: K. Michele Kacmar, Martha C. Andrews, Kenneth J. Harris, Bennett J. Tepper

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

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This paper posits that ethical leadership increases important organizational and individual outcomes by reducing politics in the workplace. Specifically, we propose that perceptions of organizational politics serve as a mechanism through which ethical leadership affects outcomes. We further argue that the modeled relationships are moderated by political skill. By means of data from 136 matched pairs of supervisors and subordinates employed by a state agency in the southern US, we found support for our predictions. Specifically, we found that perceptions of organizational politics fully mediated the relationship between perceptions of ethical leadership and helping and promotability ratings. In addition, political skill was found to moderate the direct and indirect effects.

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Titel: Ethical Leadership and Subordinate Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Organizational Politics and the Moderating Role of Political Skill
verfasst von: K. Michele Kacmar
Martha C. Andrews
Kenneth J. Harris
Bennett J. Tepper
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2013
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/s10551-012-1373-8

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