1.Here, we focus on the relationship between ethical leadership and a set of individual attributes that fall under the more general category of leader social responsibility (moral–legal standard of conduct, internal obligation, concern for others,concern about consequences, and self-judgment), a relationship that has not been tested to date。
2.Brown, Trevino and Harrison have defined ethical leadership as “the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers through twoway communication, reinforcement, and decision making”.
3.Finally, according to Brown et al ethical leaders provide followers with voice.
4.In sum, in this study, in addition to the three ethical leadership scales (morality and fairness, role clarification, and power sharing), we also included a measure of perceived despotic behavior as one possible form of unethical leader behavior.
5.This lack of empirical attention may partly be due to the difficulty of measuring the highly socially desirable personality characteristics that are likely to matter for ethical leadership.