The Power of Good: A Leader's Personal Power as a Mediator of the Ethical Leadership-Follower Outcomes Link

1 Social Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

2 Germany, Regensburg, Regensburg University, Department of Social Physics, Department of Social Psychology, Department of Organization Psychology, Department of Educational Physics

The purpose of this study was to consider the use of socially responsible power in relation to ethical leadership as a mechanism to explain the relevance of ethical leadership and believer's results. Based on attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969/1982), the leaders' personal power, combined with those of believers, is a force-based process that assumes it is an intermediate variable between moral leadership and believer's result I will explore the model. Adjustment effect Moral identity in this transformation process. The results of the two-wave field study (N = 235) of the survey staff and the scenario experiment (N = 169), since the individual's power regulates the follow-up of positive relationship tests between ethical leadership and a wide area It supports a fully proposed (moderate) arbitration model. The result (ie leader's efficiency, follower's additional efforts, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, work involvement), and the moral leadership and follower's moral identity to the results of these followers and interactive Influence. The theoretical and practical meaning discussed

In the context of an organization, morality and leadership are linked to power. Since individuals must have the ability to act, morality requires power. Leadership requires power and the power provided by the leader. Individuals decide how to use forces to determine their ethical and leadership qualities. Just as morality can not exist without leadership, leadership action can not lead without moral code to create a moral dilemma that must be solved. According to the survey, all leaders of this survey are using authoritarian leadership style. In addition, some important features of the leaders are found in ethical mistaken organizations. These features evolve around three key areas: the leader's self, hidden information, and motivation to success. From an empirical point of view, leadership is an important element of the scandal.

An ethical leader is necessary for moral leadership. If the leader is ethical, ethics will be executed reliably throughout the organization. Naturally leaders have power between work and work, so ethical leadership tells the leaders how to make this power in the decisions they make, the behavior they participate in and how they influence others You have to concentrate on what you use. Leaders are responsible for influencing followers to perform actions, complete tasks, and act in some way. Effective leaders also increase the empowerment and self-efficacy of followers by influencing the process, encouraging change in attitudes and values, and promoting the internalization of corporate vision. Leadership development can also promote organizational culture and employee values ​​to a higher level of ethical behavior. Personality and honesty provide a solid foundation to guide our ethical beliefs, values ​​and other personal characteristics of decision making.

Ethical leadership is a leader who participates in leadership in a way that respects the rights and dignity of others. "Because leaders are inherently in the position of social power, ethical leadership is essential for leaders to understand their social forces in ways that influence their own decisions, the behavior they are involved in, The leaders are important for motivating leaders to be trustworthy by the leaders and it is important and direct elements of ethical leadership Sex serves as the basis for personal ethics, personal values ​​and beliefs leading to leaders' moral beliefs, values ​​and decisions affect the moral decisions of leaders.