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When and How Team Unethical Behaviors Lead to Ethical Leadership: A Social Identity Analysis

Zhang, Shuxia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1656855476092337

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Business Administration.
The current study seeks to explore how follower unethical behaviors may be the cause of ethical leadership. Prior research has investigated employee unethical behaviors (e.g., employee deviance) as an antecedent of abusive supervision. Drawing on the social identity theory, the current research deviates from prior research and suggests that two types of social identities of team leaders (team identification and leader identity) would serve as boundary conditions that lead to ethical leadership as an alternative response to team member unethical behaviors. Across three studies (i.e., one scenario-based experiment, one time-lagged online study, and one multisource field study), I found that when leaders’ team identification was high, the morally questionable behaviors of team members would lead to team leaders’ felt vicarious shame, and the association between leader felt shame and leader moral person behaviors received mixed results. When leader identity was high, team leaders would feel the responsibility to make changes in the workplace, which was positively related to leader proactive moral manager behaviors. The current studies contribute to our understanding of the antecedents of the two dimensions of ethical leader behaviors and highlight ethical behaviors as more constructive responses to team unethical behaviors.
Jia Hu (Advisor)
Timothy Judge (Committee Member)
Bennett Tepper (Committee Member)
111 p.
Organizational Behavior
unethical behavior, leader identity, team identification, ethical leadership

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  • Zhang, S. (2022). When and How Team Unethical Behaviors Lead to Ethical Leadership: A Social Identity Analysis [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1656855476092337

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhang, Shuxia. When and How Team Unethical Behaviors Lead to Ethical Leadership: A Social Identity Analysis. 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1656855476092337.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhang, Shuxia. "When and How Team Unethical Behaviors Lead to Ethical Leadership: A Social Identity Analysis." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1656855476092337

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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