The Study of Employee’s Moral Identity and Ethical Behavior Intentions – An Examination the Roles of Ethical Leadership and Ethical Climate

• Main Authors: Chiao-Yi Yang, 楊喬依
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cr2afh

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際企業學系碩士班 === 102 === Adopting a perspective of social exchange, the aim of this study is to examine the association among employees’ social identity, ethical behavior intentions, ethical leadership, and ethical climate. This study uses the sample collected from 265 employees worked in different organizations using ANCOVA analysis to test. The empirical results showed that (1) employee’s moral identity is initially positive with his/her ethical behaviors; (2) ethical leadership perceptions have positively effect to influence the relationship between employee’s moral identity and their ethical behavior intentions, but this effect didn’t show the significant effect; (3) and the last ethical climate perceptions shows moderated the relationship for employee’s moral identity and their ethical behavior intentions, such that the relationship is stronger for those organizations with higher ethical climate. Finally, the implications, limitations and suggestion for future research are discussed