A Study of Cross-Level between Ethical Climate, Ethical Leadership, Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

• Main Authors: Yu-ju Wang, 王愉茹
• Other Authors: Ming-chu Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55019116967729637885

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 行政管理學系碩士班 === 101 === Profit is no longer the only target for enterprises; instead of physical assets, intangible assets, such as human resources have nowadays become the vital and indispensable assets for business. As a result, employee cognition and behavior has pivotal influence regarding enterprises existence. There are more and more scandals concerning about unethical matters emerge in an endless stream, which led researchers to re-examine how organizations and leaders can enhance employee ethical behaviors and outcomes. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this research is written so as to examine the relationship among ethical climate, ethical leadership, psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. This research provides 1360 questionnaires from Taiwan top thousand largest enterprises evaluated by the CommonWealth Magazine in 2012, 502 effective questionnaires were collected after deducting the invalid questionnaires; effective response rate is 36.9%. This research testifies the hypothesis by hierarchical linear modeling （HLM）. Results show that there is positively significant influence between group-level ethical climate, individual-level ethical leadership, psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. Additionally, individual-level ethical leadership has positively significant influence between psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, ethical climate and ethical leadership are respectively partially mediated by psychological empowerment. Results of the hypotheses in this research are all positively supported.