A CONCEPTUAL PROPOSAL: ETHICAL LEADERSHIP MODERATES THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE ON ETHICAL EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR

Abstract

Within an organizational fairness is influenced through interpersonal relationship among emlpoyees, managers, colleagues and between other things. The primary goal of the current study was to investigate the role of ethical leadership on the relationship between organizational justice and employees’s ethical behavior. Based upon the previous studies and the theory as well the conceptual model has developed, the current paper integrated the factors such as distributive, procedural, and interactional justice in relation to ethical behavior of employees, and the moderating role of ethical leadership has been identified. By applying and adapted the propositions, have been formulated alignment with previous and recent studies, this revealed that distributive and procedural justice and interactional justice have a positive and significant impact on the ethical behavior of employees. In additional ethical leadership has an essential role on these relationship. This study, which may contribute to the literature on ethical behavior, organizational development and employee development, and leadership consideration