Purpose

Owing to the significant and critical role of ethical leadership in organizations, this study aims to explore and understand the perceptions about ethical leadership in organizations. It empirically investigates whether the individual attributes of gender, age, work experience, executive level and qualification of members and other demographic variables, such as industry and sector, affect the perception of members toward ethical conduct of their supervisors.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a quantitative study where the analysis is based on the data collected from 419 members of 3 different industries, namely, public sector research and development organizations, information technology organizations and academic universities and colleges.

Findings

The results reveal that perception of ethical leadership does not vary across gender and qualification of members but varies across age, work experience, management level, industry and sector.

Practical implications

This study helps to understand the importance and role of various individual attributes that affect the perception of ethical leadership by followers. This study will make leaders to be more aware and behave in ethical manner with respect to different groups of followers.

Originality/value

Because of occurrence of many scandals and fraudulent behaviors in organizations, business ethics has caught the attention of policy makers, corporate organizations and academic. Ethical leadership is very crucial for organizational success on a sustainable basis. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this study is among the early studies conducted to investigate the influence of the individual attributes and other demographic variables on the perception of members toward ethical conduct of their supervisors.

中文翻译：

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组织中的道德领导：实地证据

目的

由于道德领导在组织中的重要作用和关键作用，本研究旨在探索和理解关于组织道德领导的观念。它通过实证调查了性别，年龄，工作经验，行政级别和成员资格以及其他人口变量（例如行业和行业）的个人属性是否会影响成员对上级主管道德行为的看法。

设计/方法/方法

这是一项定量研究，其中的分析基于从3个不同行业的419个成员收集的数据，即公共部门研究与开发组织，信息技术组织以及大学和学院。

发现

结果表明，对道德领导力的看法并不因性别和成员资格而异，而随年龄，工作经验，管理水平，行业和部门而异。

实际影响

这项研究有助于了解影响追随者对道德领导力观念的各种个体属性的重要性和作用。这项研究将使领导者对不同的追随者群体更加了解并以道德的方式行事。

创意/价值

由于组织中发生了许多丑闻和欺诈行为，商业道德引起了政策制定者，公司组织和学术界的关注。道德领导对于可持续发展的组织成功至关重要。就作者所知，该研究属于早期研究之一，旨在调查个体属性和其他人口统计学变量对成员对其主管的道德行为的看法的影响。