The Effects of Ethical Leadership on Employees’ Voices

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Ethical leadership is an approach of leadership which has developed in the managerial literature in the last decades of the twentieth century. This research is intended to investigate the effects of moral leadership on the voices of employees of Firdausi University of Mashhad. This is a descriptive research following analytic-investigative method whose population includes all the employees of the university. Research instruments included two standard questionnaires of ethical leadership behavior and employees voice. The validity of the questionnaires were calculated by Cronbach’s Alpha which came out to be 0.89 and 0.88 respectively. Amos software was employed to analyze the data. The results indicated that ethical leadership was effective on employees voice (coefficient = 0.39, significance level= 0.05). Ethical leadership is less effective on obedient voice (coefficient = 0.14 which is less than 0.9).  Ethical leadership is effective on defensive voice (coefficient = 0.21 which is less than 0.9). Ethical leadership is indirectly effective on altruism voice (coefficient = 0.14 which is less than 0.9).

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
serial no.22
January 2016
Pages 167-190

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  • Receive Date: 11 March 2015
  • Revise Date: 18 June 2015
  • Accept Date: 02 January 2016

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