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

被引:106
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作者
Kacmar, K. Michele [1 ]
Andrews, Martha C. [2 ]
Harris, Kenneth J. [3 ]
Tepper, Bennett J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Alabama, Dept Management & Mkt, Culverhouse Coll Commerce & Business Adm, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[2] Univ N Carolina, Cameron Sch Business, Wilmington, NC 28403 USA
[3] Indiana Univ SE, Sch Business, New Albany, IN 47150 USA
[4] Georgia State Univ, Dept Managerial Sci, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA
关键词
Ethical leadership; Political skill; Organizational politics; Helping; Promotability ratings; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT THEORY; SOCIAL-EXCHANGE; CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; SELF-ESTEEM; PERCEPTIONS; PERFORMANCE; JUSTICE; VARIABLES; IMPACT; PERSONALITY;
D O I
10.1007/s10551-012-1373-8
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
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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页码:33 / 44
页数:12
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