Ethical Leadership and Employee Trust:Governance Perspective
The issues of ethics and governance have received significant interest in recent years due to plethora of ethical scandals in organization.The recent scandals internationally and in Malaysia give us now the opportunity to ask if there is a need for a new paradigm for better governance by integrating ethical leadership and trust.The paper aims to examine the relationships between the ethical leadership dimensions and employee trust from governance perspective.Do employees place more trust on leader who aware on ethical issues? The empirical approach utilized here has been applied to the public sector employees. The findings of the study show a strong relationship between the ethical leadership dimensions and employee trust.The papers research contribution have important implications for organization in terms of hiring suitable person as leader and also in improving good governance mechanism i.e.,ethical leadership from governance perspective.Understanding the implications of the ethical leadership and employee trust towards leader provides organization with opportunities to build trust,gain cooperation,commitment and thus,it can create long term wealth and sustainable competitive advantage.
ethical leader trust integrity accountability Malaysia
Abdul Rahim Memiyanty Mohamed Shith Putera Kalsom Salleh
Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia Centre for lslamic Thought & Understanding Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia
国际会议
重庆
英文
848-851
2010-09-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）