Unfavorable effects of unethical treatments and transactions have been under serious consideration both academically and professionally. The question of how to improve ethical sensitivity in decision-making has begun to attract more and more attention. Thus, professionals have tried to consider developing ethical leadership in their organizations substantially, while scholars have begun to study its possible antecedents and outcomes. Emphasizing practical implications of ethical leadership, this study aims to analyze leaders’ behaviors based on their ethical decisions, their adoption level of ethical leadership, the degree that they have integrated ethics into their management styles, and their relations with the followers and subordinates. In this respect, authors investigate ethical leadership studies in top organizational behavior journals and categorize these studies according to their implications. The practical implications of these studies, which are related to ethical leadership, are examined in detail to excerpt a common idea about this specific style of leadership and its consequences in various industries.

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审查道德领导力研究中的实际意义

学术上和专业上都一直在认真考虑不道德对待和交易的不利影响。在决策中如何提高道德敏感性的问题已开始引起越来越多的关注。因此，专业人士试图考虑在其组织中实质性地发展道德领导，而学者们已开始研究其可能的先行条件和结果。强调道德领导的实际含义，本研究旨在根据领导的道德决策，领导对道德领导的采用程度，将道德纳入其管理风格的程度以及与追随者和下属的关系来分析领导的行为。在这方面，作者调查了顶级组织行为期刊中的道德领导力研究，并根据其含义对这些研究进行了分类。详细研究了与道德领导力相关的这些研究的实际含义，以摘录有关这种特定领导风格及其在各个行业中的后果的共识。