Designing and Validating Ethical Leadership Assessment Tools of the Managers at Public Sectors of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Full professor at the Department of Management, Imam Hussein University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD candidate of organizational behavior management, Department of Management, Higher Institute of Management Education, Research and Planning, Tehran, Iran

3 Full professor, Department of Management and Educational Planning, University of Tehran, Iran

4 Associate professor, Department of Management, Higher Institute of Management Education, Research and Planning, Tehran, Iran

5 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Higher Institute of Management Education, Research and Planning, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Organizational leadership is the main thrust of development, transformation and the emergence of the dynamic capabilities in all communities. To put in other words, leadership is the magical element of any organization. Moral leadership is an emerging aspect of this concept to which our society today feels thirsty. So far, various tools have been designed for the assessment of moral leadership most of which are mainly based on conceptual models developed in the Western societies appropriate to their norms. This research is intended to design tools for measuring local moral leadership in accordance with the ethical, religious and cultural norms of leadership, to be validated for Iranian governmental organizations. Hence, the statistical population includes governmental organizations from which a samples of 234 people are selected from six ministries by cluster sampling method. The ultimately designed measurement tool includes 40 items and eight dimensions including: genuineness and dignity, moral leadership, empowerment of followers, moral relationships, professional behavior, moral decision making, inspiration and generalization of ethics. The results indicated that the identified measurement model enjoys fitting indicators and reliable tools. As a result all Iranian administrative organizations are recommended to employ this measurement tool for measuring the situation of ethical leadership in their organizations.

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 12, Issue 3 - Serial Number 41
NO 41, Fall Quarterly
November 2020
Pages 9-39

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  • Receive Date: 25 April 2021
  • Accept Date: 25 April 2021

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