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Promoting ethical follower behaviour through leadership of ethics: The development of the ethical leadership inventory (ELI)
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 36, No 2 | a623 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v36i2.623
| © 2018 H. Spangenberg, C. C. Theron
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 11 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 2005
Submitted: 11 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 2005
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H. Spangenberg, Centre for Leadership Studies, Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaC. C. Theron, Department of Industrial Psychology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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The Centre of Leadership Studies developed a model that defines and describes leadership behaviour required for creating an ethical and high performing organisation. Purposefully building an ethical organisational environment is a prerequisite for ethical organisational behaviour. To be an ethical high performance leader, a person must be both an effective leader and a leader of ethics. The purpose of this study is to develop a 360° instrument that can be used to assess the quality of ethical leadership of middle, senior and executive managers in public, private and not-for-profit organisations. The results reported here provide reasonable support for the use of the ELI. The possibility of causal influences existing amongst specific first-order leadership dimensions, however, needs to be investigated.
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