Ethics Matter: Moderating Leaders' Power Use and Followers' Citizenship Behaviors

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• 作者：Peter J. Reiley ; Rick R. Jacobs
• 关键词：Coercive power ; Ethical leadership ; Ethics ; Expert power ; Follower ; Leader’s power use ; Legitimate power ; Military ; Organizational citizenship behavior ; Perception ; Performance ; Power bases ; Referent power ; Reward power ; Social influence
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：134
• 期：1
• 页码：69-81
• 全文大小：523 KB
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• 作者单位：Peter J. Reiley (1)
  Rick R. Jacobs (2)
  
  1. United States Air Force, USAF Academy, USA
  2. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

Followers’ perceptions of their leaders’ ethics have the potential to impact the way they react to the influence of these leaders. The present study of 365 U.S. Air Force Academy Cadets examined how followers’ perceptions of their leaders’ ethics moderated the relationships found between the leaders’ use of power, as conceptualized by French and Raven (Studies in social power, 1959), and the followers’ contextual performance. Our results indicated that leaders’ use of expert, referent, and reward power was associated with higher levels of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) among their followers when the followers perceived these leaders to be more ethical. Moreover, when followers perceived their leaders to be less ethical, these followers reported lower levels of OCBs when their leaders’ utilized referent power. Practical implications, limitations, and future research are also discussed.